WIRE — A former media aide to the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, has suggested that the appropriate punishment for kidnappers should be death sentence and not life imprisonment. Ahmad maintained that life imprisonment is too lenient for the crime of kidnapping. He made his view known in a post on X while reacting to the Oyo abduction: Kidnappers should face death sentence, not life imprisonment Buharis ex-aide

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