An African country just declared war on corruption. Should Nigeria follow?

[Exitoral]

I came across a news article on Facebook stating that an African country has implemented a law that punishes corruption with death or life imprisonment. The country is Niger, and it really got me thinking. This is one thing Nigeria should be learning from. How to implement laws that would help the country thrive.

I don't think ordinary prison sentences should be the main punishment for grand corruption. Personally, I prefer the death penalty. The reason is simple. Corruption doesn't just steal money. It steals hospitals, roads, schools, electricity and even people's future.

But looking at it from another angle, the Nigerian government can be funny sometimes. They might find a loophole in such a law and abuse it. It could end up being used against members of the opposition rather than everyone equally.

Another thing I would like to touch on is the judiciary. Can such a law really be enforced when the judiciary is not completely independent?

Can Nigeria ever consider such a law, and if it does, will it really reduce corruption? Or is the real problem not the punishment, but the certainty of getting caught?

[Agbamoni]

The Nigeria justice department is full of corruption. Those who seek justice do not find it. It is only those with money and power that seek what they want with the help of the justice department. In Nigeria many innocent souls are paying a price for a sin they did not commit. In a scenario where the punishment is death. It means many innocent soul will die.

[Joy- maker]

My dear forget about Nigeria the country was dead a long time ago, the country is like a dead man walking so of you think anything good will come out of Nigeria you're just dreaming. A country were the three arms of government are corrupt, a country were the judiciary is payed billions to bend laws so that it fit in someone stupidity.

A country were politicians now control the military, were as the military is as corrupt as the Nigeria government. You see army generals saluting a governor civilian for that matter not even because the person is  a retired military personnel, and all this things is because of political appointments when they retire from the military.

Do you think the insecurity in Nigeria today was out of coincidence? No there are Nigerians who make billions of dollars when there's insecurity in the country, therefore, they intentionally creat terrorist groups to terrorize the country so that they can make billions of dollars from it.

As far as I am concerned, the Nigeria government will never make such laws and they can never make laws that will not benefit them talk more bettering the country, therefore this new initiative by Niger, trust me when I say that Nigeria will never see it as a good initiative, they are more quick and good in learning corrupt things.

Even, if Nigeria go back to military government today, the country will still be as corrupt as it is now, if not more corrupt. And in case you don't know the Nigeria military, especially the army is more corrupt than your president government.

[Mhizlove]

You see in the case of Nigeria, harsh punishment alone will not always stop corruption if people believe that they can get away or escape justice. What really matters most is to make sure that cases are handled fairly,investigations are independent and if anyone breaks the laws, such person will face consequences no matter who that person is or the position they acquire. Because if the people knows that no one is above the law and the punishment is certain, it can discourage corruption much more than severe punishment or penalties that are not applied fairly to everyone.

[Stable090]

I came across a news article on Facebook stating that an African country has implemented a law that punishes corruption with death or life imprisonment. The country is Niger, and it really got me thinking. This is one thing Nigeria should be learning from. How to implement laws that would help the country thrive.

Make I no lie give u, na fucked up country na him we Dey. People wey we go talk say dem go implement d law na thief na him dem be also, so how e wan take happen. How u go expect make thief implement that kin law, u suppose know say e no go possible now.

Dis country just tire me self, because nothing Dey work for dis country, and honestly e no really look like anything go work now, all d people wey Dey ahead now na thief’s dem be, Dey just dey after themselves and their family members, and dem no even want make d country better. Na as things Dey spoil for d country, na Wetin Dey make dem see money steal be that.

If u just observe how d country Dey go, u go know say everything Dey wrong for dis country, and I no sure say anybody fit come change dis country again. All our politicians now ma thief dem be, and even if Dey wan commot for post, na people wey dem teach how to steal dem go still put for power.

[ArabBTC]

Corruption has eaten too deep in Nigeria and it will be completely difficult to stop it, in Nigeria everybody is corrupt so where do you even start the fight against corruption from when same institutions that were supposed to fight corruption like the police and Judiciary is more corrupt, things are so bad that children literally learn corruption while growing up when they see their parents giving police 100naira on the road, they even learn corruption in schools whereby lecturers will ask for sorting to pass them in class, justice have been truncated in Nigeria, no one cares about the truth anymore and once you act like you want to fight corruption they will start fighting you from every corner, you will even turn the target, fighting corruption in Nigeria can’t work because lots of top Nigerian politicians are actually making a lot of money as Nigeria is like this, such persons will fight anything to ensure that Nigeria doesn’t work, am happy for Niger and i do hope that Nigeria will one day fight against corruption.

[Africolo]

I came across a news article on Facebook stating that an African country has implemented a law that punishes corruption with death or life imprisonment. The country is Niger, and it really got me thinking. This is one thing Nigeria should be learning from. How to implement laws that would help the country thrive.

I don't think ordinary prison sentences should be the main punishment for grand corruption. Personally, I prefer the death penalty. The reason is simple. Corruption doesn't just steal money. It steals hospitals, roads, schools, electricity and even people's future.

But looking at it from another angle, the Nigerian government can be funny sometimes. They might find a loophole in such a law and abuse it. It could end up being used against members of the opposition rather than everyone equally.

Another thing I would like to touch on is the judiciary. Can such a law really be enforced when the judiciary is not completely independent?

Can Nigeria ever consider such a law, and if it does, will it really reduce corruption? Or is the real problem not the punishment, but the certainty of getting caught?

Nigeria can never embark on such policies because the politicians get rich by the corruption itself, if you want them to emulate what Niger has done upon corruption it means majority of them will quit as politicians. The leaders in Nigeria will never emulate or buy any ideas that will lead to ending corruption in this country because during elections they bribe the INEC officials to rig elections in their favor and if they are taken to Court they already have their sets of judges that will rule the case in their favor so you can see that the judiciary system of justice in Nigeria has also been compromised by politicians.

If Nigerian can adopt such laws, I bet you corruption will drastically reduce because as a people you will know the consequences of any corrupt acts you endorse in and it's penalties that follows it but I don't see Nigeria emulating such laws because of their selfish interest in looting the treasury of this nation.