MANY governors, who spoke with The PUNCH, on Thursday, out rightly rejected the suggestion that looters of the nation’s resources be sentenced to death.
Organised labour- the Nigerian Labour
Congress and the Trade Union Congress-at the beginning of the week said
looters should be given the death sentence in order to serve as
deterrence to others.
Labour said it was only by killing
looters that the anti-corruption crusade being championed by President
Muhammadu Buhari could succeed.
But most governors, who reacted to the labour suggestion on Thursday, said the death sentence would be too harsh.
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun said
he would rather canvass that looters be sentenced to life imprisonment,
rather than the death sentence prescribed by the organised labour.
Amosun said this while addressing the
state workers who had marched to the Oke Mosan state secretariat in
Abeokuta to give their backing to Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade.
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