The Senate has passed a bill, which prescribes life jail, as against
the current ten years maximum sentence, for kidnappers.
The bill contains amendments to the criminal code, which is currently
in operation in the southern part of Nigeria.
The proposed legislation, sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, is
titled, “A bill for an Act to amend the Criminal Code Laws of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004.
It seeks to delete the statute of limitation on defilement, increase
punishment for the offence of kidnapping, and remove gender
restrictions in the offence of rape and other related matters.
The bill eliminates time frame for prosecuting defilement cases by
increasing the period from two months to as many years as the victim
decide to take up the matter.
It also removes gender restrictions on the offence of rape by
explaining that both male and female could be raped.

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