Popular preacher and an
ex-General Overseer of Foursquare Gospel Church, Rev. Wilson Badejo has
proposed death penalty for corrupt public officials and others found guilty of
corruption.
The outspoken clergyman, who is
also the Visioner/Chairman, Wilson Badejo Foundation, made this known on
Thursday during a briefing on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the
foundation in Lagos.
Badejo described corruption as a
“terrible plague”, which “needs a drastic measure”.
He stated that the use of death
penalty could be the final measure to combat corruption which had negatively
affected both public and private facets of the country.
“As a preacher, I am for the sanctity of life.
I am pro-life. But in spite of that, and our democracy notwithstanding, I
strongly advise that we copy China, which, only last year, decided that those
found guilty of high-sum embezzlement or bribe-taking should be executed.
“Maybe if we try the death
penalty for corruption and implement the policy steadfastly without minding
whose ox is gored, people will stop this madness called looting.
“Maybe it would stop people from
stealing our commonwealth blindly and flaunting their blood money in our faces,
spraying and dancing on mint-fresh dollars at social parties, making millions
of honest and hard-working Nigerians to look like fools,” he said.
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Nice idea I think. It will quickly reinstate the economy in to what it used to be.... But those who are making the law are also in one form or the other corrupt. So they won't ever think of making such laws
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ReplyDeleteI can only say thank you Pastor
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