Posted by Samuel on Fri 05th Dec, 2025 - tori.ng
Oshiomhole spoke while the Senate was debating the proposed amendment to the 2022 Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act to include the death penalty for kidnappers.
Adams Oshiomhole, the lawmaker for Edo North Senatorial District, has criticized the deradicalization of terrorists in Nigeria, arguing that former repentant terrorists have returned to their criminal activities.
Oshiomhole spoke while the Senate was debating the proposed amendment to the 2022 Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act to include the death penalty for kidnappers.
The ex-Edo governor insisted that terrorists committing murder and other heinous crimes must face the full wrath of the law and should be given a death penalty if found guilty.
He said, “We have seen in the distant past where terrorists who have killed and committed heinous crimes were in the name of deradicalization, they were arrested, ‘deradicalized’ fed with taxpayers’ money and some of them went back to continue the act of terrorism.
“We can’t spend so much money to apprehend very dangerous people who have killed, buried children alive, and at the end when they are apprehended, someone calls from somewhere and say “look, we need to use jargons to justify why these guys should not face the wrath of the law which is to face trial and if convicted, sentenced to death.
“Even in the Holy Bible and Quran, those who kill, have no right to live.
“Those discretions are now withdrawn. No more deradicalization. If you are caught committing a heinous crime, the penalty is death if convicted”.