Bayelsa to set the death penalty for kidnapping, “I will not hesistate to sign their death warrants” – Governor Dickson

by Chi Ibe

The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Monday, said he would not hesitate to sign death warrants of convicted kidnappers.

Reacting to the latest abduction of Festus and Ebiye Ebegu, the parents of Ogbia Local Government Area Chairman, Richard, from their Oloibiri country home, Dickson said the bill would seek to amend the 2012 prohibition of secret cult, kidnapping and other related vices law passed by the state House of Assembly.

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson at the inauguration of members of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Agbere communal crisis, the governor promised to send a bill to that effect to the state House of Assembly.

“We have made it very clear that wherever there is any breach of the peace and breakdown of law and order, this government will use all its resources and authority to ensure that the right thing is done and people are brought to book,” he said.

The statement also includes traditional rulers caught assisting kidnapping and other related vices adding that they will be dealt with in accordance with the law.

He said the proposed bill was important to forestall further disruption of government’s developmental projects.

He urged youths to shun criminality and take advantage of government’s policies and programmes to empower themselves.

“Let me also use this occasion to sound a clear note of warning in this state. We thought we were through with kidnappings in this state, but just one incident of kidnapping is bad enough for us.

“We have a situation where we have an ambitious programme of infrastructural turnaround of the state because there is work going on in every community of the state and it will be so for quite some time, therefore we do not want to tolerate even one case of kidnapping of anybody.

“We are aware that if this trend is not checked, those who do not wish this state well will easily use that to foment crisis, scare investors, give our state a continuous bad name and stall our development,” he said.

 

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