Following the rescue of the kidnapped school children from Kuriga village in Kaduna State, President Bola Tinubu has again condemned the rate of kidnapping across the country, declaring that people involved must be treated as terrorists.
Tinubu who made this remark on Tuesday at a Ramadan dinner with members of the Federal judiciary, led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, asked judiciary officers not to treat kidnappers in the country with mercy.
The president, who renewed the government’s resolve to defeat banditry, said those who resorted to kidnapping children were cowards, incapable of confronting the might of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
“We must treat kidnappers as terrorists. They are cowardly,” the president said.
“They have been degraded. They look for soft targets. They go to schools and kidnap children and cause disaffection.”
“We must treat them equally as terrorists in order to get rid of them, and I promise you we will get rid of them.”
The CJN, however, commended the administration for achieving a significant milestone by appointing a full complement of 21 justices to the Supreme Court, a feat he described as unprecedented.
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