Faculty of Environmental Design and Management, Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife yesterday, recommended the death
penalty for any public official who is indicted in any financial
crime above N1million.
During his lecture which was titled "‘Corruption and challenges in
nation-building’, Kaigama said tougher sanctions such as his
suggestion would make the government's crusade against
corruption more sincere
"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.” he said
He advocated for public officer's to be compelled to declare their
assets when they assume office as well as get banned from
occupying any political office if found guilty of any corruptible act.
Who agrees with him?
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