The Senate on Tuesday raised the punishment for an offence of kidnapping from 10 years to life imprisonment.
The Upper Chamber also deleted the statute of limitation on defilement as well as removed gender restrictions on the offences of rape.
These resolutions of the Senate followed the third reading and passage of “A bill for an Act to amend the Criminal Code Act CAP. C.38, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004.”
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