Kano State House of Assembly affirms 15 years for attackers, life detainment for criminals
The Kano State House of Assembly has gone into law, a bill
looking for forever detainment for criminals and 15 years sentence for attackers in the state.
Hon. Yussuf Attah, the Majority Leader of the Assembly, who read the Kidnapping, Abduction and Forced Labor Amendment Bill 2016 preceding the Assembly today Monday, October 31, said the council of the entire Assembly passed the bill in the wake of considering the correction.
"The law has been in presence since 1963, yet did not give genuine discipline to criminals, along these lines, we need to alter it to suit the present circumstance," said Attah.
As per the administrator speaking to Fagge Constituency, any individual discovered liable of hijacking would confront life detainment without an alternative of fine while anybody discovered blameworthy of assault or constrained work will be sentenced to 15 years without a choice of fine.
Talking with newsmen after the entry of the bill, the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Salisu Riruwe, hailed the alteration as an appreciated improvement.
"With the entry of this hostile to grabbing law, we are trusting that the widespread instances of capturing and kidnapping in a few zones of the state will arrive at an end," Mr. Riruwe said
The Kano State House of Assembly has gone into law, a bill
looking for forever detainment for criminals and 15 years sentence for attackers in the state.
Hon. Yussuf Attah, the Majority Leader of the Assembly, who read the Kidnapping, Abduction and Forced Labor Amendment Bill 2016 preceding the Assembly today Monday, October 31, said the council of the entire Assembly passed the bill in the wake of considering the correction.
"The law has been in presence since 1963, yet did not give genuine discipline to criminals, along these lines, we need to alter it to suit the present circumstance," said Attah.
As per the administrator speaking to Fagge Constituency, any individual discovered liable of hijacking would confront life detainment without an alternative of fine while anybody discovered blameworthy of assault or constrained work will be sentenced to 15 years without a choice of fine.
Talking with newsmen after the entry of the bill, the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Salisu Riruwe, hailed the alteration as an appreciated improvement.
"With the entry of this hostile to grabbing law, we are trusting that the widespread instances of capturing and kidnapping in a few zones of the state will arrive at an end," Mr. Riruwe said
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