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JUST IN: Ambode okays death penalty for kidnappers
 
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Wed, 1 Feb 2017   ||   Nigeria,
 

Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has signed into law the anti-kidnapping bill recently passed by the state house of assembly.

The prohibition of the Act of kidnapping law imposes a penalty of life imprisonment on kidnapping for ransom.

The law also stipulates that where a victim dies in the course of kidnap, the suspect is liable on conviction to death.

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