TUNDE AJAJA
Corruption is a global challenge, but ours seems to be peculiar. Do we tie it to greed, lack of commensurate consequence or it’s a matter of culture? They even try to defend the corrupt ones among them just to expel any idea of corruption and I think that is the greatest danger or problem we have in trying to end corruption in the judiciary. The fact that the good ones will not separate themselves from the corrupt ones or partner with any organisation that wants the corrupt ones out does not help. Instead, they feel offended and try to accommodate those who are bad, even though they know they are bad.
You have brought in a point I have always pondered on, which is the cause of judicial corruption. Unfortunately, it is lawyers, my colleagues, who have polluted the minds and culture of the judiciary. They introduced to the poor judges huge sums of money they could not have imagined in 10 lifetimes. Some lawyers make to the poor judges offers that cannot be refused. That’s where it starts from.
In January 2018, you mentioned at a roundtable discussion on lingering corruption cases that about 2,003 unending high profile cases existed. How many of such cases do we have now, given examples like that of Col. Sambo Dasuki? We have written, confirmed reports that some of them actually use the money to go into small enterprises and have gradually risen in stature and are now doing well. We also have the case of young people being trained in various professions and being paid N30,000 pending the period they are under instruction. You also have TraderMoni and other programmes. These interventions have proven to be very useful to those who got them. It’s succour to the most impoverished and vulnerable Nigerians.
One man enraged me when he said on the television that he had never seen one person who said he got the N5,000 and that he never saw any child say they ate free lunch. Who is he that people would report to him that they had received N5,000. If he wants to find out, he should go and make enquiries. That project is not even the original idea of this government; it’s a World Bank thing. It was already in place before this government came in, they merely reinforced it.
What about gvt officials covering for party members
Oh! This man is still with us... Where has he been all this while? Buhari's anti-corruption casualty.
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