Ayoola canvasses 15-year jail term for corrupt public officers – The Guardian
November 18, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
Towards making the fight against corruption in Nigeria more effective, the Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, has canvassed a minimum of 15-year jail term without an option of fine for any public office holder caught in the act.
Besides, Ayoola, while proposing the speedy inculcation of the penalty in the nation’s Criminal Code with the severity it deserved, added that illegally acquired assets from such crime be confiscated into the state’s coffer but with judicial backing.
The ICPC boss made the call in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital yesterday at this year edition of the national conference of anti-corruption committees in Nigerian legislatures and heads of anti-corruption units in government establishment organised by the commission.
