Nollywood actor Williams Uchemba has urged the Federal Government to adopt public execution as a deterrent for kidnapping and other serious crimes in the country.
In a video shared on his Instagram page, Uchemba argued that Nigeria must fully enforce its constitution and apply stricter punishments to curb criminal activities.
Drawing an analogy with parenting, the actor likened leniency toward offenders to raising a child without consequences.
“When a child begins to steal meat from the mother’s pot and the mother upon catching the child does very little in terms of punishment or showing the child this is the consequences of this, what the mother is doing is she is breeding a hardened criminal that will eventually grow up and even destroy her own life or become a national disgrace to the family,” he said.
Uchemba maintained that public execution would help reduce crime rates, even suggesting that a special television channel could broadcast such events, similar to Big Brother Naija.
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He also noted that kidnapping already carries a death sentence under Nigerian law, but lamented the lack of transparency regarding the implementation of such penalties.
“We have a constitution that governs this country and I do not see why when it is time to execute that constitution, we are not as vocal as we should be.
“The capital punishment for kidnapping is death. Some of these kidnappers are caught. We don’t hear anything whether they are being imprisoned or executed. If you ask me, there should be a dedicated Channel just like BBNaija that is dedicated to catching some of these people that do these things and are publicly executed because until we start executing consequences to certain actions, we cannot see the results.”
The actor further challenged Nigerians to demand stricter law enforcement and stronger punitive measures, citing China as an example of a country that applies capital punishment to curb crime.
“We want to be like China but we do not have the balls that China has. The punishment for kidnapping and corruption in China is death,” he concluded.
