The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has promised that he will promote unity in Nigeria and be fair to all.
The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has promised that his administration would put in place incentives and policies that would make corruption unattractive for judges and other Nigerian workers.
Tinubu made the promise while inaugurating the Magistrates’ Court Complex in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday, May 4.
The president-elect said that what governor Nyesom Wike had done was a way of fi¥hting corr¥ption by making the judicial officers more comfortable.
According to him, “I think a different angle to what Wike has done here today is fi¥hting corr¥ption. This is the way to fi¥hting corr¥ption.
You don’t expect your judges to live in squalor, to operate in squalor; to dispense justice in squalor. This is part of the changes that are necessary in our policy tink-tank.
We must fi¥ht corr¥ption and we definitely must look at the other side of the coin. If you don’t want your judges to be corr¥pt, you got to pay attention to their welfare.
If you want fair dispensation of justice, you don’t want them to operate in hazardous conditions. Let’s think value for value. If I don’t have consumer credit and you want me to pay for the car I needed at once, N5 million, N6 million, driving temptation to corr¥ption.
But if you have consumer credit, then that will reduce the propensity to corr¥ption. We don’t want our judges to play foul, to compromise justice.
Not just the books, but do something. And I promise you, we are going to review all of these in our policy think-tank.
And that is what I intend to do on all policy formations coming up. I promise Nigerians the unity of this country is not negotiable.
That is what Nyesom Wike and I are promoting jointly. I promise I will be fair to all.”
