CURTAIN CALL
Today, we shall continue our discourse into curing Nigeria’s present conundrum, continuing with the United Nations Convention against corruption, which we had earlier started in our last outing.
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United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC)
Worthy of note is Article 46 (1), which makes provisions for Mutual Legal Assistance. It reads thus:
“States parties shall afford one another the widest measure of mutual legal assistance in investigations, prosecutions and judicial proceedings in relation to the offences covered by this Convention.”
The Convention goes further to elucidate on the “legal aid to include but not limited to taking evidence or statements from persons; Effecting service of judicial documents; Executing searches and seizures, and freezing; Providing information, evidentiary items and expert evaluations; Providing…
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