Nigeria, May 19 -- The Oluwo of Iwo, Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has suggested death penalty for bandits and other gunmen arrested for threatening the security of Nigeria.

Mr Akanbi made this suggestion Tuesday while speaking at a farmer-herder summit held in Iwo Local Government of Osun State.

He said "there must be the death penalty for kidnappers and no Human Rights advocate should kick against that. Government must begin to kill corrupt people irrespective of their ethnicity, be it Fulani Hausa, Yoruba or any tribe.

"If the security forces cannot enforce the law, then there would be anarchy, ritualists, corrupt people, kidnappers should be killed henceforth."

He also charged herders in his local government to work hand in hand with him t...