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Delta House To Embark On Anti-Terrorism Campaigns
The Delta State House
of Assembly Committee on Peace and Security said lastTuesday that it had concluded plans to start a sensitisation tour of the state on the Anti-Kidnapping law.
The Chairman of the Committee, Mr Benjamin Okiemute-Essien, told newsmen in Asaba that the tour, expected to start in May, would take the committee to the 25 council areas of the state.
Okiemute-Essien said that the campaign would focus on educating the various community leaders and their subordinates on the Anti-kidnapping law of the state.
The committee chairman said that educating the public would not only create an awareness of the law in the mind of the people, but would also help in checking crime in the state.
“The campaign has become necessary because it is not everybody in the state that knows about the death penalty which had been imposed on any person who is found guilty of kidnapping in the state.
“Therefore, educating the people will go a long way in reducing crime, especially kidnapping in the state,’’ he said.
The bill, which was sponsored by 28 members of the house, prescribed death penalty for kidnappers, cultists and terrorists.
The assembly had passed the anti-kidnapping bill on Dec. 18, 2012, but Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan refused to sign it into law.
Uduaghan, in a letter to the house, recommended life sentence for kidnapping.
The assembly, however, on April 17, 2013, passed the anti-kidnapping bill it into law, imposing the death sentence on any person convicted of kidnapping in the state.
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