Kill Politicians Who Steal Above N1m ––Trade Union Congress

The greatest impediment to Nigeria’s development is the corruption of public officials, especially in Abuja that a politician or civil servant whose official monthly pay is less than N1m owns about 10 different houses.

Anyway, the Trade Union Congress believe they have the solution. They have recommended death penalty for public officials who embezzle beyond N1m in order to kill corruption once and for all in the country.

“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 President of the TUC, Bobboi Kaigama, said this at the fourth lecture series of Faculty of Environmental Design and Management, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on Tuesday. 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 leaders had no reason not to declare their assets publicly. The TUC boss also advocated that corrupt leaders should be banned from occupying public offices for life.