Bashir Ahmad, media aide to Buhari, in a tweet on Sunday, raised the alarm on sustained kidnappings for ransom, calling for “new legislation or the revision of current laws to mandate the death penalty as punishment for banditry and kidnapping.
Responding to Mr Ahmad’s tweet, Mr. Rowland suggested reaching out to Prof. Isa Pantami to know why Nigerians queued up for months to secure NIN.
Reacting to Mentus’s tweet, Pantami blamed security agencies for not utilising the NIN-SIM data to tackle rising kidnapping for ransom and banditry.
In 2020, former President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime ordered SIMs to be linked to the NIN of every citizen and Nigerians who failed to link their SIM to NIN had their lines disconnected.
Bashir Ahmad, media aide to Buhari, in a tweet on Sunday, raised the alarm on sustained kidnappings for ransom, calling for “new legislation or the revision of current laws to mandate the death penalty as punishment for banditry and kidnapping.
Responding to Mr Ahmad’s tweet, Mr. Rowland suggested reaching out to Prof. Isa Pantami to know why Nigerians queued up for months to secure NIN.
Reacting to Mentus’s tweet, Pantami blamed security agencies for not utilising the NIN-SIM data to tackle rising kidnapping for ransom and banditry.
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