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.

[Marvelockg]

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?

You think that our problem is that we don't have have the right laws that normally should help take out corruption? i wish that is the case. we have a lot of good laws that relates to all the issues we are facing but the challenge has always been that when it comes to the full implementation of these laws, there is always an alteration which mostly favors the rich and finds full expression when dealing with the poor.

Neutral implementation of laws has been the greatest challenge we are facing because the rich always finds a way to amend laws to suit them. if you put a law that centers on imprisonment of government official that embezzles public funds, they will intentionally set up clauses that serves as an excape route when it is time to implement such laws.
 

[Yablee0]

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.

That one is true, Nigeria politicians are very selfish. They gain more when their is corruption in the land, they actually can not afford to risk anything that might probably stop corruption when it's literally their dirty ways of stealing the national resources. Just imagine what our president is doing today, assuming the system was working perfectly, Tinubu won't have even gotten the courage of thinking of coming back to office for the second time because he knows it wouldn't be possible for him, but since the system isn't working just as they have totally distroyed it, he has every assurance of retaining back his office to it fullness without any opposition.

[Mpamaegbu]

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.

I nor see anything abnormal for dat wan bc na so e don bi for Naija right from d time wen I begin sabi something. Na why awa constitution make am in a way to allow governors and presidents to be chief security officers na. Dat Commander in Chief of Armed Forces title nor be for mouth. The wan wey I dey see wey I nor like be sey security personnel go dey carry handbag or umbrella follow civilians bc dem dey provide VIP security for dem. Dat wan na rubbish. E dey make me shame on their behave sef.

[Roseline492]

For now is not necessary for this declaration in Nigeria because it will be going one sided while the politicians who are really committing this crimes will not get any punishment, I don't mind any rules or declaration in this country but however it shouldn't be done while those corrupt people are still our decision makers because those things will only affect the poor people so actually is possible that Niger has had a change of government that's why they want to stop corruption totally so that any government that succeed them will be bind to it, although if you are looking for the most painful sentence is not the death sentence because ife imprisonment is the most terrible.

[Promocodeudo]

The question we should ask is who'll be declaring the war and to which people exactly? The president and to his political rivals right, can a corrupt leader declare war on corruption? If our judicial system was very sound without the interference of the executive then we can be rest assured that they'll act accordingly, this country has not grown to that level, we are too far to be at that level, it would've been nice if a separate power is to declare this, but as far as the power to do some of this things lies in the hands of the executive mainly, it will turn to witchhunting if it been allowed to scale through, we don't have a sincere government in Nigeria, the president and his appointees are all corrupt, so who'll investigate who, they will only try to further silence the voice of the opposition, if such declaration is bee  made.

[9ja Amaka]

A law like this would have been very good for Nigeria,  but we all know that it will be very hard for the law makers to pass such law, because they know that they are also guilty of the corruption.  Nigerian government has always been corrupt for as long as I can remember and they are not doing anything to change it. For such law to be effective in Nigeria the judiciary had to be completely independent,  but I really doubt if that is possible in Nigeria,  because the politicians will not all it to happen. In a nutshell it's really a good idea, but a lot of things has to be put in place for it to be effective in Nigeria,  like I mentioned the judiciary has to be independent,  because it's the key to make it effective and the legislature have to be ready to make such law.

[Ndabagi01]

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?

This country you’re comparing to Nigeria is actually not of a bigger country than Nigeria, but if they want change and want to become a better nation than us, such rules they’ve implemented is such a great idea towards making that happen. The reasons why this law will be very effective in this country is because they’re not more being ruled by civilian but military. These are the kind of people that can give a law and everyone will obey and not disobey no matter what. The military take over in that nation could be the best turning point for the country to get rid of corruption and become a better nation that they are today.

[Qhunman]

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 government would never implement such laws because they are corrupt. If they implement it,the same law could be used against them in the future. They wouldn't agree to it and even the so called National assembly would vote against such law.
However,Niger republic is an example of good leadership,if the  president can implement such laws, truly he is a leader who wants the best for the country. I think other African countries should learn from Niger, they should copy his style of leadership because no country can thrive under corruption.