Muhammadu Buhari giving his inaugural speech
Itse Sagay, professor of law and chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), on Monday said Nigeria would have collapsed if Buhari had not intervened.
He said this after a presentation of the committee’s report on a new legal framework for fighting corruption.
“We know of some governors who are not supposed to be there, but found themselves on the bloody seats with the help of some judges,” he said.
“If Buhari had not come, I don’t think there would have been a country. Zimbabwe would have been better. The government is operating on a zero budget.
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“We need the judiciary, but we need an upright judiciary. If we don’t have a judiciary with moral integrity, then we don’t have a democracy.
“No agency would have dared to arrest Oputa, Obaseki, Eso, and some others. They gave judgments against the military governments. The moral authority of the golden era of the supreme court has crashed.
“No judge should be guilty of corruption; if that happens then they have reduced themselves to our level, so they should take whatever happens. Let us be fair to this country.”
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President Muhammadu Buhari set up the committee in August, 2015.
In the report, the committee recommended plea bargaining as an alternative means of settling corruption cases.
6 comments
This Sagay guy should take a chill pill and give us a breath of fresh air He and Falana have lost it because of a morsel of porridge which PMB offered them on a platter of gold . How on earth will you justify the gestapo style invasion of judges residence in the name of fighting corruption.
How would you define the FBI raids of judges houses, arrested and prosecuted and jailed the corrupt judges.
You’re supporting evils.
Sagay is integrity-challenged. People like him continue to demonstrate why Nigerians have no heroes in the true sense. Pathetic.
Who cares if there is a country called Nigeria
We are fed up with co existing with fulani herdsmen.We want to break and leave the name name to them
You guys sound like you too are morally defficient. Sometimes a bad decision is better than no decision. While these men were desecrating the courts with brazen corruption, where were you? What hope does a country that operates cash for justice hold out for the poor? These men, all through their careers have been sending people to jail for bribery involving very small amounts and for other petty crimes, but have been more criminal yet untouchable.
This so called Bishop, Hon. Freeman and Similia are not only morally deficient as Uzom described them but, they are clueless,myopic and an embarrassment to a supposed pragmatic generation . They could be talking this way because they had no relations among the young soldiers that had been sent to early grave because of deceptive and wicked government who released them to fight invaders without reliable weapons. In countries like China or India, those judges deserve severe punishment for aiding and abbeting evils.When Judges were taking bribes to pervert judgements and living beyond their incomes these people looked elsewhere but, when nemensis caught up with them, the willing wailers come critisizing the government.