Nigerians have taken to X (formerly known as Twitter) to slam Bashir Ahmad after he called on the national assembly to come up with a law that will make kidnapping and banditry capital offences with death sentence to those found guilty.
Bashir Ahmad was a media aide to the president when Buhari was President. He was always defending the government when Nigerians raised alarm over insecurity and activities of bandits.
Now that he is no longer in power, and calling for a legislation against kidnappers, Nigerians are now attacking him for not making the demands when he was part of the presidency and had more influence.
Below are Bashir’s post and the replies he got.
He wrote: “I am reaching out to Sen. Kawu Sumaila, a senator representing me at the Senate, and Hon. Ghali Tijjani Mustapha, a member representing me at the House of Representatives, to urge them to introduce a new legislation or the revision of current laws to mandate the death penalty as punishment for banditry and kidnapping. Specifically, individuals caught committing these heinous crimes against humanity should be subjected to immediate capital punishment.
I believe such punishment can effectively help to combat these grave criminal offenses.
I urge you to also reach out to your representatives at the National Assembly to advocate for this cause.
Kindly REPOST!”
Read the replies below.
