Research fellow recommends plea bargain for recovery of looted funds
Eseosa Okuku, a research fellow of the National Judicial Institute (NJI), Abuja, has recommended plea bargaining for government as the best system to recover the looted assets from the public office holders and other Nigerians indicted for corrupt practices.
Plea bargaining, according to her, is an innovative system where persons indicted for corruption and breach of trust surrendered the looted assets to the government to receive light punishment in return.
Delivering a lecture on “Understanding the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015” at a training organized for judiciary correspondents in Abuja, the lawyer said that the system was better for...
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