AFRIQUECAN: NIGERIA’S President, Bola Tinubu says kidnappers have to be treated as terrorists.
President Tinubu, who made the comment at a Ramadan dinner with members of the Federal judiciary on Tuesday, described people who abduct children as cowards that cannot confront the might of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
“They are cowardly. 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,” Tinubu said at the dinner, according to a statement by the President’s spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale.
Speaking on the review of salaries of judicial officers, the President pledged that his administration would continue to implement necessary reforms to improve the welfare and working conditions of judicial officers.
”I recognise that the judiciary has one of the most unrewarded responsibilities. They are yet to modernise equipment and recordkeeping, and their progress towards improvement is slow.
”When you look at the career path of a judicial officer, they cannot practise the vocation for which they were trained after retirement.
”While the framers of the law may have their reasons, I perceive this differently and see this from a fair compensation angle that should benefit all,” the President stated.
President Tinubu expressed gratitude to the judiciary for their dedicated service to the nation, acknowledging their role in upholding the respectability of the judicial arm of government.
“We will continue to support one another and bring Nigeria to that glorious dawn,” the President concluded.
