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Senate Considers Bill On Life Jail For Corrupt Public Officials by Nobody: 6:24pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
The Senate has begun consideration of a Bill seeking life jail for corrupt public officials in the country. The Upper House has read the Bill, sponsored by Senator Smart Adeyemi (PDP, Kogi West), for the first time. The bill is titled: “An act to provide for the imposition of special punishment on persons found guilty of economic sabotage and other matters connected therewith.” It seeks to punish officials who corruptly enrich themselves with public funds. The Bill, which prescribes life jail for those who are guilty of the offence, specifies that five years of the life jail will be spent at a mechanised farmland of the Nigerian Prison Service in the state where the offence is committed. The highlights of the bill, which short titled was read last Thursday, are: “Any person who fraudulently takes or converts to his own use any sum of money amounting to five million naira or more being the property of the Federal Government of Nigeria or of a State or Local Government in Nigeria shall be guilty of economic sabotage. “Any person who fraudulently diverts any public fund amounting to five million or more being the property of the Federal Government of Nigeria or of a State or Local Government in Nigeria into his private account shall be guilty of economic sabotage. “Any person who receives any payment or revenue amounting to five million naira or more on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria or of a State or Local Government and intentionally refuses to pay such fund into the appropriate government account shall be guilty of economic sabotage.” A statement issued yesterday by Adeyemi’s Special Adviser (Media), Dickson Adeyanju said, “The bill also seeks to empower the Attorney-General of the Federation or that of the State Government to constitute a special panel which will investigate such allegation." The panel, the statement added, will be made up of "a legal practitioner, a reputable member of Nigerian Union of Journalist, a Police officer not below the rank of a Chief Superintended of Police, a senior counsel in the Ministry of Justice and a person of unquestionable integrity from a reputable civil society group, which will investigate such allegation upon which the Attorney- General will prefer criminal charges against such a person.” http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=166591 |
Re: Senate Considers Bill On Life Jail For Corrupt Public Officials by blacksta(m): 6:34pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
it will never see daylight - common FoI bill they refused to pass |
Re: Senate Considers Bill On Life Jail For Corrupt Public Officials by citizenY(m): 6:37pm On Feb 16, 2010 |
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