Chief Ozekhome calls on Tinubu to set up electoral courts to punish offenders
By David Lawani, Abuja
Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) has called on President Bola Tinubu to proffer solution to the current hunger and mass poverty in the country.
He stated that Nigerians were being made poor daily due to bad economic conditions.
Ozekhome stated this as the guest speaker during the second edition of Thisnigeria Lecture and Awards 2024 held at the Yar’Dua Centre in Abuja on Thursday.
He bemoaned political corruption in the country and asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to set up special courts to be charged with the responsibility to punish electoral offenders.
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“The process of the constitution is even more important than the context of the constitution because it has become autotomous and indigenous to the people. I believe that we also need serious legal reforms in terms of electoral system.
” We should have an electoral courts that should punish for crimes, so that people will know that crimes do not pay. We need the youth to come on board,” Ozekhome said.
“And we need to encourage them so that people will not be accusing them of doing yahoo yahoo if you don’t give them jobs, and a student spend eight years in university instead of four years because of ASUU strike.
” What do you want the youth to do? An idle hand is the devil’s workshop.”
