Niger Governor Okays Law To Hang Bandits, Others

Gov. Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger State on Friday signed into law, the death penalty by hanging for cattle rustlers, bandits, kidnappers and informants in the state.

Reports gathered shows that on July 1, the Niger State House of Assembly passed into law a bill prescribing the death penalty for informants, kidnappers, and cattle rustlers in the State.
Bello said the Kidnapping and cattle rustling special provisions law of 2016 was amended to provide for the punishment of informants and all those involved in the aiding and abetting of kidnapping and cattle rustling in the state.
He said that informants who aid and abet kidnappers would now have to face death sentence by hanging in public as now enshrined in the state law.
”The law now provides that whoever instigates any person to kidnap a person or rustle cattle, or intentionally aides, abets or facilitate by any acts of omission or commission of the offence of kidnapping and or cattle rustling is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to death by hanging in public,” he said.Gov. Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger on Friday signed into law, the death penalty by hanging for cattle rustlers, bandits, kidnappers and informants in the state.