Public execution, only solution to public corruption
By Nnamdi Nwigwe
If we are serious about the scourge of corruption and the need to effectively eliminate it in our public life, public execution is the only solution.
Those entrusted with the power to govern the rest of us must be morally upright and shun every vestige of malfeasance.
If they are unable to avoid stealing what is given to them in trust for safekeeping, then they should not vie for public office.
Corruption among public officers and officials has become so blatant that it has turned into a joke in this country.
Preachments are no longer enough to deter some of our leaders who even flaunt their ill-gotten wealth before the bemused citizenry.
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People in charge of the national treasury don’t care anymore about the consequences of their actions.
The security hierarchy don’t give a damn squirrelling funds meant for weapons and soldiers’ welfare and appropriating them for personal or group use.
The people in charge of drugs and medicines divert the approved budget for such life-saving materiel to private use.
Doctors are treated as though they don’t matter in the society. But the rogues will fly out of the country for treatment of the slightest headache.
Oaths of office are rattled absentmindedly before the judges with the holy book irreverently held in one hand.
Big parties and thanksgiving services are organized, not to mark a successful term in office but rather for being appointed or winning election where one has access to the honey pot.
From one government tenure to another the citizenry is left complaining and grumbling over the lack of achievements by their leaders.
Bogus elections are conducted by utterly compromised gatekeepers who have no shame any more.
No sign of redemption of the situation is proffered.
But there has to be a solution.
My suggestion is the introduction of a shock therapy.
Public execution of officers and officials who have manifestly demonstrated their unworthiness to hold public office by the magnitude of their looting of public funds.
But how do we start?
That’s a big question which fellow concerned compatriots should begin to interrogate.
We can work out details of the offences – by recourse to funds in banks and identifiable properties owned – that will qualify one for the gallows!
Let our national dialogue and debate be the methodology of selecting those to be publicly shot as a deterrence to the rest of us.
