The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, says kidnappers are now considered as terrorists.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on Thursday last week declared bandits as terrorists.
The minister of Justice who made this known while appearing on Politics Today, a current affairs programme on Channels Television which our correspondent monitored from Abuja on Wednesday, said the recent court declaration had been gazetted and would soon be published.
Malami’s statement partly read, “It is in the process of being gazetted but the order has been procured and obtained. It is being gazetted and publication will come up very soon. If you kidnap using force, using arms, you are qualified as a terrorist within the dictates and determination and the judicial decision done by the court. You have come within the purview and ambit of the Terrorism Act and you will be accordingly and decisively dealt with.”
