The Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill Act passed first reading in the Nigerian Senate during a plenary session on Thursday.
The bill sponsored by the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, followed resolutions reached just 24 hours earlier when senators, during a heated debate on national insecurity, agreed on the need to classify kidnapping as terrorism punishable by the death penalty.
The introduction of the amendment bill is expected to commence the process of altering the legal framework to impose harsher penalties on kidnappers amid rising security concerns across the country.
