Nigeria: The Profound Anti-Corruption Legal Framework Nigeria Needs

opinion

Iwilade Akintayo, a legal practitioner, in this piece explains that Nigeria does not lack legal provisions to tackle corruption. What the nation desperately needs, he argues, is enforcement of the rules and the political will to confront the menace frontally

THE NIGERIAN citizenry obviously yearn for an end to the odious corruption that has retarded the country's progress for too long. The law, stripped of all its niceties, will remain complicit in our under-development crises until it is fundamentally restructured to promote, as against stifling, this legitimate yearning. But in what ways can a more profound anti-corruption and legally enforceable framework be formulated for Nigeria if this anti-graft war is ever to be properly conceptualized, fought, and won?

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