Standup9ja: Take anti-graft war to ICC, SERAP tells Buhari
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)
has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to refer high profile official corruption
cases to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution.
This followed a string of setbacks in the anti-corruption
fight, in which the government lost four high profile court cases in a week.
SERAP said, “As a state party to the Rome Statute of the
ICC, the government should also consider drawing from the expertise,
experience, and international best practices of the court to complement the
mandates and powers of our anti-corruption agencies and judiciary to
successfully and satisfactorily investigate, prosecute and hear high-profile
corruption cases.”
In a statement yesterday by SERAP deputy director Timothy
Adewale, the organization said, “The latest setbacks in the prosecution of
high-profile corruption cases show the need for effective enforcement measures
to weed out, expose, and punish grand corruption in the country. Referring
large-scale corruption cases to the ICC would in the short-medium term improve
deterrence, and at the minimum demonstrate a symbolic commitment to confront
grand corruption head on.”
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