Students seek passage of anti-kidnapping bill
The National Association of Ondo State Students, has urged
members of the National Assembly to urgently pass the anti kidnapping bill
before it.
The National President of the group, Temidayo Temola also
criticised security operatives for failing to combat the increasing rate of
abduction in the country.
“It is glaring that the police have failed in discharging their
duties. They have failed to track down the kidnappers of journalists. They are
only effective on the pages of newspapers parading innocent people as
criminals,” he said.
“Our senators and House of Representative members need to brace
up and make sure that the anti-kidnapping is urgently passed into law. So that
those who have made abduction their source of daily living can be prosecuted
and sent to jail.
The students however lauded the Ondo State House of assembly for
passing the anti-kidnapping bill.
The bill, which recommends twenty year jail term for kidnappers,
will go along way in reducing the trend, the students said.
The union also pleaded with government to spend more money to
fund education which, they said, is not receiving the it needs to grow.
“It is not funny that the money allocated to education is too ridiculous
compare to what is being experienced in the other countries. It is high time
our government increased the budgetary allocation to education, so that
graduates being churned out by tertiary institutions across the country can
compete favourable with their colleagues all over the world,” he added
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