A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, in Bauchi, Alhaji Shuia’abu Ahmed has advised President Buhari to take to more stricter legal methods of dealing with corruption.
While speaking to News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi on Sunday, February 7, Ahmed said that government officials dipping into public funds are more terrible than armed robbers and should be made to face a firing squad if convicted like it is done in China.
“I am happy that some members of the National Assembly are in support of introducing firing squad for looters of public funds and I am a strong supporter of Nigerians who are in support of the Chinese system.
“Nigerians learn by experience and if those found to be corrupt are executed, the level of corruption would automatically drop, but if offenders are given leniency, the level of corruption will continue to rise”, he said.
He condemned the critics of Buhari’s war against corruption, stating that they were corrupt individuals using diversionary methods to cover their corrupt tracks.
Ahmed said corrupt people will always invent ways of taking attention of crusading puritans from the main course, adding that if investigated properly, such persons have skeletons to hide.
He described Buhari as a courageous leader while urging the senators in the National Assembly to create laws that will quell corruption as well as create a special court that tries corruption cases.
“Buhari will not last forever, but enacting laws and establishing special courts will deter any president coming after him from legalising corruption as done during the last administration in the country,” he stressed.
He also stated that Buhari has done well in the fight against insurgency.
“Within the short period Buhari has spent in office, even his own enemies will say that he has performed well and peace is returning to the country.
“The people of the North-East were almost facing extinction and if it situation then had continued, the states in the region would have been ruined by now,” he said.
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