*Advocates Death Penalty For Kidnappers

FIRST Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has stated that more investment in women is a sure pathway to building progress in Nigeria.

Mrs. Tinubu also advocated the death penalty for kidnappers, considering its increasing occurrence in the country, urging state governors and lawmakers to put in place laws to make the malaise punishable by death.

In a statement from her office to mark this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) on Friday, March 8, and signed by her media aide, Busola Kukoyi, the First Lady, during a meeting with the National Women Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja.

She lamented that women and girls are often the victims of the kidnappers, adding: “They are cowards. Our hearts bleed. I call on the state governments that once we take hold of them, they deserve capital punishment. Why can’t they take men of their size, why are they touching women and children.

  She condemned in strong terms, the recent mass kidnapping of school children in Kaduna State, saying kidnappers as coward, charging state governments that once we take hold of them, they deserve capital punishments. Why can’t they take men of their size? Why are they touching women and children?

“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 a 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”.

“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.”

While saying the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Tinubu administration places a strong emphasis on creating opportunities for women to thrive economically, socially, and politically, she added: “As women, we constitute a significant portion of our society and it is vital that our voices are heard and our contributions acknowledged.

“As women leaders, your role is very crucial to our nation’s development. You are the eyes and ears of the government at the grassroots.

“I, therefore, encourage you to set a robust agenda for empowerment, inclusion and welfare of women within our party and across the nation.”

Earlier, leader of the group and National Women Leader, Dr. Mary Idele Alile, and others thanked the First Lady for her impact on the lives of Nigerians through her various interventions on the platform of RHI.

The group requested her assistance in pressing for more inclusion in the activities of the current government.