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Nigeria: Anti-Graft Crusade - Conduct Tribunal Slams Political Leaders
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This Day (Lagos)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Lagos
President, Code of Conduct Tribunal, Justice Constance Momoh, said yesterday that political leaders in the country lacked the political will to prosecute corrupt persons.
Momoh, who stated this at the on-going Anti-corruption Summit in Kaduna, said such political leaders showed indifference to public outcry over the prosecution of corrupt officers.
"Where the political leaders have the will power to prosecute it, cases of limitation of legal investigation, judicial capacity and adequate financial resources stalled it," he said. Represented by an official of the tribunal, Mr Sani Adebayo, Justice Momoh decried the abandonment of cases that involved some public officers at the Tribunal in some states.
He said the cases bothered on breaches of the code of conduct and abuse of office by the officers, and regretted that the governors were not interested in prosecuting them. He advised that asset declaration should be judiciously used to prosecute officers that acquired illicit wealth while inoffice. "Wealth unsatisfactorily acquired should be confiscated, the Tribunal can use the Asset Declaration Form to justify the burden of unexplained wealth .
"Momoh also called for the removal of some bottlenecks in the administration of justice in the country, to enhance its dispensation. He said some of the bottlenecks particularly the immunity clause, had to be expunged from the constitution, to enable the war against corruption succeed.
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Momoh, whose paper dealt with the recoveryof stolen wealth, also decried the legal differences in jurisdictions that hindered recovery of such wealth world wide.
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