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.
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