How to end corruption, by Oyegun

In from Olumide Olaoluwa …
The speedy conclusion of corruption cases will serve as a deterrent to public officials, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has declared.
He said the current trend of allowing trial of those accused of corrupt practices drag for too long was counter-productive.
Odigie- Oyegun spoke at the post-investiture reception for the National Legal Adviser of the party, Dr. Muiz Banire, who will be conferred with the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) tomorrow.
He lamented that some people who have looted use the same resources to delay the course of justice for several years.
According to him: “The matter today is corruption, and we must evolve ways of treating corruption cases and dispose of them quickly.
“When we talk of corruption today, we are not talking of a few millions of naira, we are not talking of 5%; we are talking about something approaching to trillions.

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“These people can keep us in courts all year long and for many years. In cases that are very obvious, very clear that if you total everything such a person would have earned in all his life, if he comes ten times over to the world, there is no way he could have accumulated the kind of wealth he has, particularly for people in public service.”
He said corruption trial must be quickly dispensed with for the nation to stand a chance of survival.
“There must be easier way; there must be either decisive justice, real justice without defeating the purpose of justice and without defeating the means to reform our society.
“Reform we must and that reform must permeate all sectors of the economy and the polity”.

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