Now that's how you run a clean government. Don't play around with the crooks and looters!
How many politicians would be left in Abuja if the Federal Republic implemented a similar law?


China introduces the death penalty for officials involved in corruption cases involving more than £300,000

President Xi Jinping waged a much-publicised anti-corruption campaign
The president had vowed to target powerful 'tigers' and low-level 'flies'
No Communist Party official is known to have been put to death yet
Embezzlement could incur death penalty, or life sentence without parole
See more news from China at www.dailymail.co.uk/china

By Amie Gordon For Mailonline

Published: 04:27 EST, 18 April 2016

Corruption cases involving more than £300,000 - or three million yuan - could incur the death penalty in future, Chinese authorities have ruled.

Under President Xi Jinping the country has waged a much-publicised anti-corruption campaign however no Communist Party official is known to have been put to death for the offence since Xi took office.

The Supreme People's Court and China's national prosecuting body said that bribes or embezzlement totalling three million yuan or more will be considered 'extraordinarily huge value' and could incur the death penalty, or a life sentence without parole.



Corruption cases involving three million yuan or more may incur the death penalty in future, Chinese authorities have ruled

Such offenders will be eligible for the death penalty if their actions had 'extremely severe circumstances and caused extremely vile social impact and extremely significant losses to the state's and the people's interests', Xinhua News Agency cited their joint 'judicial explanation' as saying.

Capital punishment will remain an option for the courts -- which in China are controlled by the ruling party -- and will not be mandatory.

The intent was to punish corruption 'with severity according to the law', Xinhua said.

Supreme People's Court judge Pei Xianding said judicial authorities would hand down death sentences 'in a resolute manner', Xinhua reported separately.

A previous threshold was set in 1997 at 100,000 yuan, but was not updated until it was abolished last year.



Under President Xi Jinping China has waged a much-publicised anti-corruption campaign vowing to target both powerful 'tigers' and low-level 'flies' in the Communist Party

Xi's crackdown has swept up scores of senior officials in the party, the government, the military and state-owned companies, including former security czar Zhou Yongkang.

So far its most severe sentences have been death with a two-year reprieve -- which is normally commuted to a life term -- or life imprisonment, which Zhou was given.

Former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death penalty in 2013 for taking bribes worth 60 million yuan, which was commuted to life imprisonment last year.

The document also widened the range of benefits that can be defined as bribes, to include debt forgiveness among others, the report said.

Any acceptance of gifts by government employees that might affect the performance of their public duties will be regarded as bribery even if there was no specific request by the briber at the time, it said.



A man walks past a courthouse in Beijing during the sentencing of China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun in 2013, who was given a suspended death penalty for taking bribes worth 60 million yuan

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great idea....I hope such is implemented here in Nigeria so that all these old fools are eliminated.

I love China, everyone looks alike

Nice policy

Waiting for wen it go start in naija

Yes!... Laws like this are made in sane climes to deter people from corruptly enriching themselves with money meant for the public.

If you try it in Nigeria it will be dead on arrival because our law makers are corrupt.

That's not new in china.

na so,am not a buhari fan but I think we have to give him millatary authority to fight corruption more effective, especially when corrupt people can brag of 40 lawyers after being convicted of a crime

Nigeria needs to adopt this law ASAP if not this hard time presently will look like pardise come 50yrs time!

Nigerian politicians and corruption are just like bread and butter. They would never allow such law to be passed.

Make such laws in Nigeria and all that is left will be farmers

The law makers are even afraid to make laws. Chai!!!!!!!Nigeria,na only God can save us from diz ppl wu are wit authotries

Hmmm