“What I can speak of is what was expressed at the workshop which is what I can say is from the horse’s mouth. There were lawyers who spoke, there were judges who spoke and they said most of the suspects and their highly-paid lawyers would come to court and they would raise, of course, as any lawyer would, depending on the instruction from their clients, the fundamental rights issue.
“But I think the consensus view is that if you steal money, if you are looting money through corrupt conduct, it’s not yours, and the government is trying to recover the proceeds, what fundamental right is being violated?”
Commonwealth representative,
Katalaina Sapolu, at the PACAC ‘Workshop on Roles of Judges in the Fight Against Corruption,’ held on Monday and Tuesday at the National Judicial Institute in Abuja.
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