The Christian Association of Nigeria on Thursday said capital punishment was needed in some cases of corruption in the country.

The CAN General Secretary, Dr. Musa Asake, who said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent, however, stated that there was the need to define corruption.

Asake was reacting to the Arewa Consultative Forum’s demand for death penalty for corruption cases.

He said, “First of all, what is the definition of corruption? It is very difficult because there are different levels of corruption and there are those that steal with biro, while others loot the nation’s treasury through many other means.

“However, capital punishment is needed in some areas because corruption generally seems to have been entrenched in our system. But for now, we need to define what corruption is in Nigeria.”

According to him, there is a great task before the National Assembly, which he said should come out with a definition of corruption.

He said, “For now, capital punishment without defining what corruption is would be very difficult because even in offices, people steal in different ways through impersonation and embezzlement of billions and stealing peoples salaries.

“So, are we going to put them in the same rank with the same law applying to all of them? So that is why the National Assembly should come out to define capital punishment and CAN would be able to explain very well based on that definition.”

But the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders opposed the ACF’s call.

Its Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran, in an email to our correspondent, said, “As much as we are worried about the recalcitrance of corruption culprits in Nigeria, death penalty cannot solve the problem.


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Corrupt politicians and civil servants in this country do not deserve to live.

They are responsible for the messy state we are in currently.

Unfortunately, many are unrepentant and would rather hold us back from making progress such as is currently happening in the power sector.

Can you imagine that?

National Assembly, which he said should come out with a definition of corruption.

Now they dont know what is corruption?

“However, capital punishment is needed in some areas because corruption generally seems to have been entrenched in our system. But for now, we need to define what corruption is in Nigeria.”

If you ask me, there is no need to ask, they should simply take a trip to the China and ask them to define corruption. I'm certain that they will get the definition - in fact, China is willing to display the true definition of corruption to them.... shioor, smh

I hope they include CHURCHES?