Ebonyi State Government has forwarded an executive bill to the State House of Assembly seeking to make kidnapping a capital offence punishable by death without an option of alternative punishment. Governor Francis Nwifuru recently revealed this at the weekend during the funeral of the slain traditional ruler of Ndufu-Alike autonomous community in Ikwo Local Government Area, HRH Eze Francis Igwe.
Recall that Igwe, father of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ebonyi State, Eric Igwe, was abducted on Sunday, March 1, while on his way to church. He was reportedly killed by his abductors a day later.
Speaking at the funeral, conducted by the Assemblies of God Church, Nwifuru lamented about the moral deterioration among Nigerian youths, expressing concern about their readiness to assume leadership positions in the future.
He concluded by pledging to implement any court decision against those arrested over the monarch’s murder.
His words, “I am worried about our present-day youths taking up leadership positions tomorrow.
Some of our youths are not well informed, and they act so irrationally.
I am concerned because, with some of their attitudinal dispositions, there seems to be no future for our youths.
The youths need to have a rethink concerning certain actions of theirs, especially as concerns their attitudes towards community leaders.
They should desist from treating their leaders as holders of their destinies.
I will not wait to execute the decision of the court over the murderers of this monarch, HRH Eze Francis Igwe.
We have sent a bill to the House of Assembly to make kidnapping attract the death sentence by hanging in the state, with no other option.
This should serve as a deterrent to those planning a kidnap, whether for political reasons or otherwise.”
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