After years of toxic pollution and devastating
effects from corruption, Nigeria – Africa's
most populous country – has become a
wasteland. It's not a coincidence that Nigeria
is a center for different kinds of corruption
parasites.
Bayo Oluwasanmi
There are corruption parasites of all kinds in
Nigeria. One variety is when officials pocket
budget funds for their departments. Another is
when bankers embezzle depositors money and
when the bankers collude with ministers to
defraud the state. Yet another is couched in
ambiguous terms such as “security vote” for
governors, “stomach infrastructure,”
“mobilization fee,” “constituency allowance,”
and so many corruption laden bogus aliases.
The Nigerian poor is caged in all avenues, in
every direction, are blocked and booby trapped
by corruption. The experience of poor
Nigerians is that their living is confined and
shaped by forces and barriers which are not
accidental or occasional hence avoidable, but
initiated and entrenched by their own
government.
Look around you, you'll find government anti-
graft agencies with different alphabetical soup
names that serve no purpose in fighting
corruption. The anti-graft agencies are a
classic case of the therapeutic treatment
applied to treat disorders created by the
government itself.
Corruption is both a major cause and a result
of poverty in Nigeria. It occurs at all levels of
our society – local, state, and national
governments, civil society, judiciary functions,
large and small businesses, military and other
services and so on.
The poverty foisted upon our people is
exclusively a creature of the government in
consensual economic dealings anchored on
corruption. Conditions of concentrated poverty
are visible and prevalent in our
neighborhoods. Nigerians bleed from
corruption and like the President-elect rightly
said “If we do not kill corruption in this
country, corruption will kill Nigerians.” There is
no better way to say this.
One of the pillars of democracy is
transparency. Citizens have right to know
what goes on in the government. Citizens
should be given the chance to contribute their
input before decisions are made on their
behalf. People should have the right to probe
unaccountability in government.
It is obvious that the poor are the most hard
hit by corruption. Corruption undermines our
political development, democracy, economic
development, our people's health and much
more. At all levels corruption makes it difficult
for our people to effectively participate in our
democracy: the people's interests are not
represented. Corruption has made our lives
more painful and unbearable.
For years and especially the Jonathan years,
newspaper headlines compete for stories on
ministers and other top government officials
embroiled in scams that involve millions and
billions. Despite the huge uproar and
campaigns and deeper highlight on corruption
by various organizations, little has been done
to stem the tide of corruption. No one is
surprised why the fight on corruption is so
hard and seems impossible to fight. Indeed,
our government in collusion with powerful
interests have always made corruption difficult
to fight.
Come May 29, President Muhammadu Buhari
should make it harder for any Nigerian to
embezzle millions and billions. Buhari can
learn another strategy for tackling corruption
from the Chinese and the Vietnamese. In
Vietnam, they don't just send unscrupulous
financiers to jail, they send them to death row.
In China, corruption is punishable with the
death penalty if the sums acquired illegally go
beyond a certain threshold.
According to Vietnam's Tuoi news outlet, last
year Vietnam sentenced three corrupt bankers
to death by firing squad. Two of the bankers
on death row embezzled $25 million from the
state owned Vietnam Agribank. A 57-year old
former regional boss from Vietnam
Development Bank, another government-run
bank, was sentenced to death over a $93
million swindling job. Several of his colleagues
were sentenced to life imprisonment after they
confessed to securing bogus loans with a
diamond ring and a BMW coupe. But for most
part, Nigerian bankers whose greed nearly
caused financial collapse of our banking and
financial institutions and economic melt down
didn't get indicted. They got bonuses.
The Chinese people viscerally hate corruption
and are reluctant to see the death penalty
dropped. They do not see why corrupt officials
should benefit from foreign standards on
human rights. “Corrupt officials who deserve
the death sentence should all be executed by
shooting. Otherwise, they will find a way to
save their lives with the money they have
embezzled,” says Zou Xingyu, a Chinese
commentator on Tencent Weibo, a popular
micro-blogging site.
Chinese criminal law states that anyone who
embezzles more than 100,00 yuan ($16,340)
can be sentenced to death. In 1980s 103
Chinese officials at the level of ministers or
above were tried in court and 80 per cent were
found guilty of bribery and embezzlement. Six
were sentenced to death, 27 were given
suspended to life imprisonment, and 44 were
given sentences of varying lengths. In 2011,
two corrupt deputy mayors of Suzhou and
Hangzhou in China were sentenced to death
while the head of the State Food and Drug
Administration was executed for corruption.
The current level of corruption in Nigeria is
systemic and widespread and calls for drastic
solution. It is so entrenched that it is the rule
rather than the exception. It is no
exaggeration to say that few honest officials
are victims in a country that lacks democracy,
supervision, and a weak judicial system
manned by corrupt judges. I believe the only
drastic and effective deterrence to kill
corruption before it wipes out Nigeria and
Nigerians is to make corruption punishable by
death – execution by firing squad.
By the decisive electoral victory of Buhari in
the presidential elections, Nigerians seem to
be saying “We're behind you in your crusade
against corruption. Do whatever it takes to kill
corruption including the use of death penalty.”
In our determined march toward a new Nigeria
under Buhari, how about making examples of
three rotten corrupt officials with high
visibility – Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayo Fayose,
and Doyin Okupe – known for their insane
combativeness and statements loaded with
expletive epithets – as the first causalities of
corruption by execution?
Fani-Kayode is the director of media and
publicity of the Jonathan Campaign
Organization. Indicted by EFCC since 2008,
he's been in court on and off, off and on, in a
N100 million money laundering case preferred
against him. Fayose who became governor of
Ekiti State for the second time via Ekitigate
election rigging scam is also indicted by EFCC
for $1.2 billion poultry scam. Okupe, senior
special assistant to Jonathan on public affairs
and the erstwhile chairman of Romix Solifix
International (Nigeria) Limited, is on EFCC
caseload for N800 million road construction
contract that he failed to execute. He got the
money and just disappeared to Aso Rock
under the protective umbrella of Jonathan. All
other felons indicted by EFCC should face the
same punishment.
A crime buried with justice is never laid to
rest. Destroyers of our economy and lives of
our people should be given swift and severe
punishment. Death penalty for corruption
should be our favorite method of fighting
corruption and will serve as a sweet revenge
for poor Nigerians – victims of corruption.
byolu@aol.com

If you've never sinned before, then go shoot them yourself, we will commend you. But make sure you have evidence to prove that you've been clean all your life.

They should just be jailed. No need to shoot them. Cos if shooting is involved, esp in a county likr naija, people will start implicating enemies who held political offices just to get them shot.

wat will tinubu,ameachi and other apc thieves face....am sure if this men should apc,they will b seen as saint for they ve become "change"right?oh no wonder y atiku is not to b killed via fighting squad..yeye dey small

smemud:
After years of toxic pollution and devastating
effects from corruption, Nigeria – Africa's
most populous country – has become a
wasteland. It's not a coincidence that Nigeria
is a center for different kinds of corruption
parasites.
Bayo Oluwasanmi
There are corruption parasites of all kinds in
Nigeria. One variety is when officials pocket
budget funds for their departments. Another is
when bankers embezzle depositors money and
when the bankers collude with ministers to
defraud the state. Yet another is couched in
ambiguous terms such as “security vote” for
governors, “stomach infrastructure,”
“mobilization fee,” “constituency allowance,”
and so many corruption laden bogus aliases.
The Nigerian poor is caged in all avenues, in
every direction, are blocked and booby trapped
by corruption. The experience of poor
Nigerians is that their living is confined and
shaped by forces and barriers which are not
accidental or occasional hence avoidable, but
initiated and entrenched by their own
government.
Look around you, you'll find government anti-
graft agencies with different alphabetical soup
names that serve no purpose in fighting
corruption. The anti-graft agencies are a
classic case of the therapeutic treatment
applied to treat disorders created by the
government itself.
Corruption is both a major cause and a result
of poverty in Nigeria. It occurs at all levels of
our society – local, state, and national
governments, civil society, judiciary functions,
large and small businesses, military and other
services and so on.
The poverty foisted upon our people is
exclusively a creature of the government in
consensual economic dealings anchored on
corruption. Conditions of concentrated poverty
are visible and prevalent in our
neighborhoods. Nigerians bleed from
corruption and like the President-elect rightly
said “If we do not kill corruption in this
country, corruption will kill Nigerians.” There is
no better way to say this.
One of the pillars of democracy is
transparency. Citizens have right to know
what goes on in the government. Citizens
should be given the chance to contribute their
input before decisions are made on their
behalf. People should have the right to probe
unaccountability in government.
It is obvious that the poor are the most hard
hit by corruption. Corruption undermines our
political development, democracy, economic
development, our people's health and much
more. At all levels corruption makes it difficult
for our people to effectively participate in our
democracy: the people's interests are not
represented. Corruption has made our lives
more painful and unbearable.
For years and especially the Jonathan years,
newspaper headlines compete for stories on
ministers and other top government officials
embroiled in scams that involve millions and
billions. Despite the huge uproar and
campaigns and deeper highlight on corruption
by various organizations, little has been done
to stem the tide of corruption. No one is
surprised why the fight on corruption is so
hard and seems impossible to fight. Indeed,
our government in collusion with powerful
interests have always made corruption difficult
to fight.
Come May 29, President Muhammadu Buhari
should make it harder for any Nigerian to
embezzle millions and billions. Buhari can
learn another strategy for tackling corruption
from the Chinese and the Vietnamese. In
Vietnam, they don't just send unscrupulous
financiers to jail, they send them to death row.
In China, corruption is punishable with the
death penalty if the sums acquired illegally go
beyond a certain threshold.
According to Vietnam's Tuoi news outlet, last
year Vietnam sentenced three corrupt bankers
to death by firing squad. Two of the bankers
on death row embezzled $25 million from the
state owned Vietnam Agribank. A 57-year old
former regional boss from Vietnam
Development Bank, another government-run
bank, was sentenced to death over a $93
million swindling job. Several of his colleagues
were sentenced to life imprisonment after they
confessed to securing bogus loans with a
diamond ring and a BMW coupe. But for most
part, Nigerian bankers whose greed nearly
caused financial collapse of our banking and
financial institutions and economic melt down
didn't get indicted. They got bonuses.
The Chinese people viscerally hate corruption
and are reluctant to see the death penalty
dropped. They do not see why corrupt officials
should benefit from foreign standards on
human rights. “Corrupt officials who deserve
the death sentence should all be executed by
shooting. Otherwise, they will find a way to
save their lives with the money they have
embezzled,” says Zou Xingyu, a Chinese
commentator on Tencent Weibo, a popular
micro-blogging site.
Chinese criminal law states that anyone who
embezzles more than 100,00 yuan ($16,340)
can be sentenced to death. In 1980s 103
Chinese officials at the level of ministers or
above were tried in court and 80 per cent were
found guilty of bribery and embezzlement. Six
were sentenced to death, 27 were given
suspended to life imprisonment, and 44 were
given sentences of varying lengths. In 2011,
two corrupt deputy mayors of Suzhou and
Hangzhou in China were sentenced to death
while the head of the State Food and Drug
Administration was executed for corruption.
The current level of corruption in Nigeria is
systemic and widespread and calls for drastic
solution. It is so entrenched that it is the rule
rather than the exception. It is no
exaggeration to say that few honest officials
are victims in a country that lacks democracy,
supervision, and a weak judicial system
manned by corrupt judges. I believe the only
drastic and effective deterrence to kill
corruption before it wipes out Nigeria and
Nigerians is to make corruption punishable by
death – execution by firing squad.
By the decisive electoral victory of Buhari in
the presidential elections, Nigerians seem to
be saying “We're behind you in your crusade
against corruption. Do whatever it takes to kill
corruption including the use of death penalty.”
In our determined march toward a new Nigeria
under Buhari, how about making examples of
three rotten corrupt officials with high
visibility – Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayo Fayose,
and Doyin Okupe – known for their insane
combativeness and statements loaded with
expletive epithets – as the first causalities of
corruption by execution?
Fani-Kayode is the director of media and
publicity of the Jonathan Campaign
Organization. Indicted by EFCC since 2008,
he's been in court on and off, off and on, in a
N100 million money laundering case preferred
against him. Fayose who became governor of
Ekiti State for the second time via Ekitigate
election rigging scam is also indicted by EFCC
for $1.2 billion poultry scam. Okupe, senior
special assistant to Jonathan on public affairs
and the erstwhile chairman of Romix Solifix
International (Nigeria) Limited, is on EFCC
caseload for N800 million road construction
contract that he failed to execute. He got the
money and just disappeared to Aso Rock
under the protective umbrella of Jonathan. All
other felons indicted by EFCC should face the
same punishment.
A crime buried with justice is never laid to
rest. Destroyers of our economy and lives of
our people should be given swift and severe
punishment. Death penalty for corruption
should be our favorite method of fighting
corruption and will serve as a sweet revenge
for poor Nigerians – victims of corruption.
byolu@aol.com

And what have you faced for all the insults coming from you? If you claim ignorant of them, just don't go far as this your post is one of them.

And what will happen to Tinubu, amaechi, atiku, obasanjo and other apc thieves? I think he should start with them.

What of tinubu, oyegun, obasanjo, atiku?

Emotional kids....

Hey,, u mean thieves or pdp members..¿¿¿
U 4got to include Tinubu, Ameachi, Atiku, 4ma pda members in Apc etc...!!
Or wht is ur own definition 4 a ''thief'' or ''thieves''..??

timijoseph01:
Hey,, u mean thieves or pdp members..¿¿¿
U 4got to include Tinubu, Ameachi, Atiku, 4ma pda members in Apc etc...!!
Or wht is ur own definition 4 a ''thief'' or ''thieves''..??

op is d most correct definition of a "marrafaka"

And thief like sherrif, shettima, Abubbakar, Ameachi, bukola saraki, tinubu, Atiku...if he can't, you southern idiot should shut up. You only want your brothers arrested when the Northern protect themselves..when will the south have sense!! What have FFK done that the northerners have not done worst

This post should be a valid reason why NCC should mandate the scrapping of free megabytes on recharge by network providers...

Another crappy thread...SMH

If look close enough you won't fail to find thieves within your family. Be honest. No offence meant, just mouthing the obvious.

If you look close enough you won't fail to find thieves within your family. Be honest. No offence meant, just mouthing the obvious.

You are right op. Thieves like the ones you mentioned must face firing squad, while thieves like tinubu, amechi, fashola, saraki, Ahmed Fatah, et all should be given top government appointments. Believe me, there is no better equitable treatment.

One thing I know is that the case against Fani-Kayode that the EFCC dropped will be revisited.

He would have to send Thief-nubu to the firing squad first.

then thieves like Tinubu, amechi, atiku, john oyegun, etc should face bombing squad.

wadetaw202:
You are right op. Thieves like the ones you mentioned must face firing squad, while thieves like tinubu, amechi, fashola, saraki, Ahmed Fatah, et all should be given top government appointments. Believe me, there is no better equitable treatment.

that is left to pdp if they ever win election to the centre again(they might change name cos the defection too much) for now they should be made to clear lagos gutter and shovel anambra erosion

Hmm[i][/i]

mikolo80:
that is left to pdp if they ever win election to the centre again(they might change name cos the defection too much) for now they should be made to clear lagos gutter and shovel anambra erosion

In order words, you are saying APC government should be sectional and politically biased and you are not even ashamed to write about it?!

Wetin he go come do to Tinubu ati ameachi .....public stoning?

wadetaw202:


In order words, you are saying APC government should be sectional and politically biased and you are not even ashamed to write about it?!

Fastest way to full blown democracy instead of there rigfests that we've been having for last 16yrs

see, apc probe and jail pdp for looting

then when pdp gain power they probe and prosecute apc

soon looting will fall to barest minimum

me and you now get to enjoy the oil/tax money(road hospital security electricity water etc)

anyhow some ppl need to go to jail for our country to move forward

half bread is better than puff puff

mikolo80:
Fastest way to full blown democracy instead of there rigfests that we've been having for last 16yrs

see, apc probe and jail pdp for looting

then when pdp gain power they probe and prosecute apc

soon looting will fall to barest minimum

me and you now get to enjoy the oil/tax money(road hospital security electricity water etc)

anyhow some ppl need to go to jail for our country to move forward

half bread is better than puff puff

Sorry to say, but your viewpoint is myopic. What we need is the President of Nigeria and not the President of APC. Not a President, who punishes some criminals, while covering up some other criminals. That is irresponsibility and hypocrisy.

saintgp:
wat will tinubu,ameachi and other apc thieves face....am sure if this men should apc,they will b seen as saint for they ve become "change"right?oh no wonder y atiku is not to b killed via fighting squad..yeye dey small

Those ones will face acid bath

No need to face firing squad, they should just be sentenced to 100years imprisonment. that will be good for them.

wadetaw202:


Sorry to say, but your viewpoint is myopic. What we need is the President of Nigeria and not the President of APC. Not a President, who punishes some criminals, while covering up some other criminals. That is irresponsibility and hypocrisy.

that is reality
you want a saint,vote jesus
otherwise don,t deceive yourself or the politicians will cash in
like i said half loaf is better than none

as long as we have criminals like tinubu and saraki in charge "half loaf is all we can hope for"
the idea is to start a "gang war" of attrition between them
thereby forcing them to govern nigeria well if they want votes
instead of looting cos they know they can always compromise the candidates

i wish buhari could have won solely on cpc ticket so he can jail all the baggars but he needed tinubu
and tinubu neede saraki,obj et al
so we have to take what we can get for now
and tit for tat probes is the best i think we can hope for for now

wadetaw202:


Sorry to say, but your viewpoint is myopic. What we need is the President of Nigeria and not the President of APC. Not a President, who punishes some criminals, while covering up some other criminals. That is irresponsibility and hypocrisy.

that is reality
you want a saint,vote jesus
otherwise don't deceive yourself or the politicians will cash in
like i said half loaf is better than none
what we got is what we got
is it not better for half the thieves to be made to pay for their crimes against the commonwealth
and when power changes hands the other half

as long as we have criminals like tinubu and saraki in charge "half loaf is all we can hope for"
the idea is to start a "gang war" of attrition between them
thereby forcing them to govern nigeria well if they want votes
instead of looting cos they know they can always compromise the candidates'

Yess, 120years in imprisonment + death by hanging + firing squard.

im a yoruba buhari should kill them

Tinubu should be at the front.