The National Assembly, Thursday, December 13, endorsed death penalty for perpetrators of terror acts in Nigeria.
The legislators’ resolution of death sentence for terrorists was contained in the conference committee report of both chambers of the National Assembly, which harmonised a Bill for an Act to amend the Terrorism (prevention) Act 2011 and for other related matters.
In the report read on the Senate floor, chairman of the conference committee, Sen. Mohammed Magoro, said that “Clause 2 amends Section 1 of the principal Act which deals with “prohibition of acts of terrorism” in general. The senate version prescribed life imprisonment for offences under this clause while the House version prescribed death penalty. After deliberations, the House version was adopted by the conference committee.”
The report was, however, not adopted yesterday by the Senate because the signatures of some members of the conference committee, including that of the House Committee chairman, were not in the report.
Senate President David Mark, however, instructed the committee chairman to get the report signed by all members of the committee for proper documentation.
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