First Lady Remi Tinubu has called for the enforcement of capital punishment on kidnappers and abductors of children in the country.
Making an impassioned public address on Friday, just 24 hours after 227 children were kidnapped by gunmen in Kaduna, Senator Remi Tinubu, pleaded that the capital punishment be applied to criminals involved in the heinous act of child abduction.
She was speaking to newsmen after the celebration of the 2024 International Women’s Day in Abuja.
Mrs. Tinubu said: “Whoever is kidnapping children is sick, cruel and a coward. Enough is enough. I call on state governors that once we take hold of them, they deserve capital punishment. Why don’t they take people their size? Why are they touching our children?
“What they are doing is they are trying to kill your future. We all know parents, when we are old, we rely on our children and we see them as our investments that have not gone to waste especially when they are successful.
“Why would you go and take them from schools? Why?
“As a former lawmaker, I believe that any one of them captured deserves capital punishment. I say it and I believe most mothers believe that.”
According to her, the situation demanded decisive action to curb the rising cases of child abduction.
She said children falling victim to abductors brought trauma and devastation upon families and communities.
The First Lady said: “We cannot continue to sit idly by as innocent children are snatched away from their families. The time for leniency is over.
“Those who commit such heinous crimes must face the full wrath of the law.”
