Former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Tuesday said the war
against corruption could not be won with the current set of criminal
laws in the country.
Waziri said the criminal laws, most of which were inherited from the colonial masters, were no longer relevant.
She spoke in Abuja at the public
presentation of a book, Law of Evidence in Nigeria, written by Chief
Sebastine Hon, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
The ex-EFCC boss urged the National Assembly to repeal the current set of criminal laws and enact new, more effective ones.
She said, “It is a notorious fact that
the corruption is being fought partly with archaic laws, the laws that
are no longer suitable for the unpleasant situation we have found
ourselves.
“At the time most of our laws were being
enacted by the colonial masters, nobody envisaged cyber crime; nobody
envisaged Internet fraud and nobody even envisaged manipulation of
computer to defraud because those things were not there at the time.
“I use this singular opportunity to call on our members of the National Assembly to rise to the challenge.
“They should give us potent laws that can confront corruption and corrupt tendencies headlong.
“We must not shy away and we must not spare any effort to review and reform our laws to suit our present purposes.
“I charge our legal practitioners too to
be concerned with the nation’s archaic laws and no effort should be
spared to ensure that the laws are periodically reviewed and updated to
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Medicine after death. How long does it take to know that the current criminal laws in Nigeria are not fit for purpose? Perhaps a lifetime. The current laws are only fit for human right breach against the poor and defence-less Nigerian.
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How long will it take you to know that the current criminal laws in Nigeria are not in order. This is incredible.
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