“If We Don’t Pay Ransom, They Will Tire & Stop” Amaechi Tells How To Stop Kidnapping

The Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has offered a solution to tackling the menace of kidnapping rocking different parts of the country.

Amaechi disclosed that the payment of ransom should be halted.

“If we don’t pay ransom, they will be tired and they will stop” the former governor of Rivers State noted in Ibadan during an inspection of the Lagos – Ibadan Railway project.

Amaechi disclosed that he passed a law forbidding payment of Ransom to in Rivers State when he was the Speaker of the State House of Assembly.

The Minister made the revelation while reacting to questions about how to stop the vandalization of railway track facilities and other equipment.

Amaechi in a report monitored by societynow.ng on thenationonlineng.net stated “I don’t know why some Nigerians are like the way they are. I have told the Managing Director of NRC to arrest the buyers of the equipment. It is not enough to arrest the vandals.

“It is likened to those who said why should the National Assembly punish those who pay ransom, that law was first passed by the Rivers State House of Assembly when I was a speaker and the reason is, that, when there is no demand, there will be no supply.

“If we don’t pay ransom, they will be tired and they will stop. The same way, if they don’t buy those metals, slippers and others, nobody will steal them.”

“…Also, we must approach the Judiciary to have court that can dispense justice readily so that people are sent to jail early enough to deter others and we will also encourage our governors to create jobs