Nigerian Senate Passes Law Banning Ransom Payments to Kidnappers
A police truck stationed outside the University of Abuja Staff Quarters gate where unknown gunmen kidnapped people on Nov. 2, 2021.
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Nigeria passed a law that bans ransom payments to kidnappers in the West African nation, which frequently experiences abductions.
The new law amends an existing Act and makes it illegal to pay money for the “release of any person who has been wrongfully confined, imprisoned or kidnapped,” Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, chairman of the senate’s committee on judiciary, said.