A don, Dr Ferdinand Ottoh, has urged the judiciary to give special attention to the anti-corruption fight of the Federal Government by accelerating hearing of corruption-related cases.
Ottoh, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Lagos, made the appeal on Monday in Lagos.
“Nothing meaningful will be achieved in the current anti-corruption fight without the unalloyed support of the judiciary.
“If it requires reviewing its jurisprudence in matters of corruption cases, let it be so,’’ he said.
Ottoh said that corruption in public offices was a major setback to Nigeria’s development, warning that the country would not be able to record any meaningful progress until eradication of the menace.
“We can only talk of the Nigerian state when it has the capacity to provide welfare for the people and meet its obligations as enshrined in the 1999…
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