The Trade Union Congress has recommended death penalty for public officials who embezzle beyond N1m in order to reduce corruption in the country.
The President of the TUC, Bobboi Kaigama, said this during the fourth lecture series of the Faculty of Environmental Design and Management, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on Tuesday.
While speaking on the theme, ‘Corruption and challenges in nation-building’, Kaigama noted that Nigeria needed to go tougher in its war against corruption.
He said that leaders had no reason not to declare their assets.
He said, “If the governments and legislators are truly sincere about the fight against corruption in the country, they must go tougher. Any public official, whether at the state or federal level, should be executed. Killing them after confirmation of any embezzlement allegation of more than N1m will lead us to the right path.
“I sincerely recommend an active process of legislation that would support that. It would also serve the nation well to have a law which not only provides for every public office holder to declare his assets on assuming office, but also stipulate that he must repeat the exercise each subsequent year that he is in office and not later than one month after vacating the office. Such declaration should be in at least three newspapers and not just to the Code of Conduct Bureau.”
The TUC boss also advocated that corrupt leaders should be banned from occupying public offices.
He lamented that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as well as the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission were not strengthened.
Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Prof. Bamitale Omole, said the war against corruption required a collective effort, saying, “countries all over the world have different times along their developmental journeys stared this behemoth squarely and fought it (not to talk to it) with their might collectively.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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It is because you have no oil in yur domain that is why you talk like this. Wait till when you have in the north whether you people will not steal more than this especially when you are neglected in development.
ReplyDelete99.9999999 percent of the oil fields in the niger delta is onwed by the northerners, so the man is right.
Deletethis is the system the chinese introduced years ago, and now it has helped them to be where they are now. keep saying Bobboi Kaigama because is the only solution to nigerians problem.
ReplyDeleteThe fear of death will reduce corruption. Death sentence to corrupt officers.
ReplyDeleteFantastic idea, but how many public officers will be left if this proposal is strictly implemented?
ReplyDeleteThis is a very welcome call. The only way to scare public officers from stealing is the death penalty, otherwise we are heading nowhere. If only we can put aside sentiments about our religious beliefs the Sharia takes care of all these we are crying about and profers solutions to deter all sorts of crime. China, Saudi, and a host of other countries have been able to curb this menace to a level we can say no longer exist and see where China for example is today. We know it will be difficult to get such a law passed, because there is no one in government now that will be sparedunless a radical military take over with the introduction of the law into our system.
ReplyDeleteIf Jonathan wants to be re elected, he should pass this law.
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