First lady Remi Tinubu has called on state governors and lawmakers to prescribe the death penalty for kidnapping.
Mrs Tinubu stated this on Friday in the wake of Thursday’s kidnapping of over 200 school children in Kaduna.
The first lady spoke during a meeting with the National Women Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja.
She described kidnappers as cowards for taking hold of women and children, noting that they are inhumane and should be treated as such.
“They are cowards. Our hearts bleed. I call on the state governments that once we take hold of them, they deserve capital punishment…,” she said.
“What they are doing is that they are trying to kill our future, we all know that when parents are old, we rely on our children, we see them as our investments that have not gone to waste especially when they are successful.
“Why will you now take them from their schools? Right now, I think enough is enough. As a former lawmaker, I believe that any one of them captured deserves capital punishment.
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“I believe most mothers will support me on this because we carry our children for nine months, and we cannot watch what we love to wither away.”
Mrs Tinubu told the women that the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu places strong emphasis on creating opportunities for women to thrive economically, socially, and politically.
She also celebrated International Women’s Day with the women and all other Nigerian women for their courage, resilience and doggedness.
Earlier, the group led by its national women leader Mary Alile, her deputy Zainab Ibrahim and members of the executive thanked the first lady for her impact on the lives of Nigerians through her various interventions on the platform of the Renewed Hope Initiative.
