{"id":14626,"date":"2019-08-25T15:31:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=14626"},"modified":"2019-08-25T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:31:55","slug":"buhari-govt-asked-to-list-corrupt-officials-governors-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-govt-asked-to-list-corrupt-officials-governors-others","title":{"rendered":"Buhari govt asked to list corrupt officials, governors, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sent an open letter to Mr. Abukabar Malami, SAN, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, to adopt public registers for corrupt state governors and other high-ranking public officials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/policy\/serap-wants-un-to-intervene-on-police-repression-in-nigeria\">SERAP<\/a> said: \u201cWe urge you to ensure that the public registers contain accurate data and are fully accessible and open to public scrutiny. Aspects such as the scope of the registers, who to include in the registers, and eligibility for removal from the registers, can be discussed in a consultative session with the civil society and other stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>In the letter signed by SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said the proposed registers are far from severe, and would be a proportionate response to the grave crime of grand corruption and impunity of perpetrators and have a deterrent effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic registers for high-ranking officials facing corruption charges and those convicted of corruption would be a pivotal moment in the fight against corruption by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the damage caused by graft to citizens\u2019 human rights and Nigeria\u2019s democratic process\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed registers for corrupt officials would serve a public interest purpose similar in some respects to the recently disclosed names and details by the United States Department of Justice of 80 defendants, most of whom are Nigerians, that have been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft and other charges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSERAP is concerned that corruption is so pervasive across many states and at several levels of governance and has remained a constant feature of Nigeria\u2019s political scene since 1999, turning public service for many into a kind of criminal enterprise. Grand corruption has continued to fuel political violence, deny millions of Nigerians access to clean water, and even the most basic health and education services, and reinforcing police abuses and other widespread patterns of human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lack of public registers containing detailed information about high-ranking public officials charged with and convicted of corruption since 1999 has allowed many politicians\u2014often with impunity\u2013to use apparently illicitly acquired wealth to fund political parties, build corrupt patronage networks, thereby preventing fair access to economic and political power, serving to further the wealth and power of ruling elites, and exacerbating inequality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegisters would help protect the public from corrupt officials and their collaborators and improve the ideal of representative government, as it would assist the citizens to properly exercise their right to participate in their own government.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPublic registers would improve transparency by making it easier for the public to track the government\u2019s fight against corruption and make the government as open as possible in its anti-corruption efforts. SERAP urges you to push for legislation that will require public officials charged with and convicted of grand corruption at the federal, state and local government levels to put their names in the public registers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has the right of access to any information held by the state or by any other person, which is reasonably required for the exercise or protection of any rights, including those of citizens\u2019 right to human dignity and freedom from corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegisters for corrupt officials would also address the paucity of information about politicians and others complicit in the mismanagement of the country\u2019s natural wealth and resources, with devastating consequences for citizens\u2019 enjoyment of their human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sent an open letter to Mr. Abukabar Malami, SAN, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, to adopt public registers for corrupt state governors and other high-ranking public officials. SERAP said: \u201cWe urge you to ensure that the public registers contain accurate data and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,204,729,641],"class_list":["post-14626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-government","tag-san","tag-serap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari govt asked to list corrupt officials, governors, others - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-govt-asked-to-list-corrupt-officials-governors-others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari govt asked to list corrupt officials, governors, others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sent an open letter to Mr. Abukabar Malami, SAN, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, to adopt public registers for corrupt state governors and other high-ranking public officials. 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