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SERAP opposes NASS proposed amnesty for looters’ bill

written by Esther faroye July 3, 2017
SERAP opposes NASS proposed amnesty for looters’ bill

Human rights advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has call for an immediate withdrawal of a bill before the House of Representatives, seeking full and complete amnesty for treasury looters.

According to this group, the bill is being sponsored by the Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker from Ebonyi State, Linus Okorie, and it proposes that treasury looters will not face any probe, inquiry or prosecution; and shall not be compelled to disclose the source of their looted funds, as long as they invest their ill-gotten wealth in Nigeria.

But rejecting the proposed bill in an open letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Sunday, SERAP argued that such a bill is counterproductive to the country’s quest to defeat corruption.

In an open letter by its Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, SERAP further said that the bill by Okorie is not in line with the constitutional mandate of the lawmakers to make laws for the peace, order and good governance of the federation

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