A member of the National Judicial Council, NJC, and ex- chairman of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Dr Muiz Banire (SAN), has thrown his weight behind the touted death penalty for individuals convicted of fraud.
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Death penalty has found favour in some quarters as the only solution to eradicate corruption in Nigeria, a position Banire, a former National Legal of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, lent his voice to in an interview he granted Punchng.com.
The former Commissioner in Lagos also proposed that Muslim faithful and their Christian counterparts should weekly during congregational worship seek God’s wrath on looters.
“The solution that I want, which I have always said but people are not doing, is that at every Friday Jumat service and every Sunday Church service, let us be praying against them. Every week, we should mention what we want God to do to them. I know God will answer. That is my first and major antidote to it. There are people who dare the consequences because they know they would not get more than 14 years and after that they would come back to enjoy their loot. So, let us invoke the wrath of God on them first. Secondly, those who have advocated death penalty for corruption are not out of place. I honestly believe that we might start considering death penalty,” he told the paper.
