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1 J.L. Pol'y & Globalization 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/jawpglob1 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3240 (Paper) ISSN 2224-3259 (Online) Il Vol 1, 2011 liil Could Tough Anti-Corruption Laws and an Exclusive Anti-Corruption Court Safeguard Nigeria's National Treasury? John Egbeazien Oshodi Department of Psychology, Nasarawa State University. Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria E-mail: jos5930458@aol.com Abstract In this paper corruption in Nigeria is expressed as realistically unmanageable and there is no current aggressive way of reducing its spread. The nation has been judged to be surrounded by corruptible persons, especially in public leadership. In this paper a line of unusual legal and therapeutic methods are suggested. It is being offered in this paper that the nation should develop in-house forensic institutions for corruption suspects and convicts following a battery of psychological testing on the mental condition of corruption suspects (i.e., the malady of Corruptomania) to determine underlying impulsive and social personality related predispositions. In this article assumptive lines of anti-corruption fights are proposed such as the death penalty. Instituting some special courts will quicken the implementation of hard core punishment like the death. Keywords: hospitals, forensic, special courts, corruption, legal, corruptomanic, sharia, Nigeria. 1. Introduction During a 15 minute meeting in Washington, D. C. in April of 2010, President Barack Obama of the United States advised then acting President Goodluck Jonathan to make major progress during his tenure by aggressively fighting corruption in Nigeria. Mrs. Farida Waziri, a law enforcement expert and the current head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has recently called on the newly inaugurated 7th National Assembly to pass the non-conviction based asset recovery bill, a bill that has the full blessings of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Mrs. Waziri stated that the Special Courts (Establishment Bill) and the Evidence Act (Amendment Bill), both legal weapons in the anti-corruption fight, require the National Assembly's expeditious passage. Professor Attahiru Jega, the former Vice Chancellor of Ado Bayero University, Kano, and now the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has specifically judged the country as currently in a disabled state as a result of a public leadership marked with corruptible hands. Professor Jega called for strong public support for the anti-corruption agencies in their daily legal battle against those that are illegally sucking the people's money for their own personal and selfish use. Judging from these major calls for a professional but definitive way to counter corruption through extreme and stiff legal consequences, this paper seek to provide a psycho-legal approach to this vice and lasting punitive and therapeutic ways to reduce corruption in leadership and deter acts of corruption now and in the future. There is no doubt that most Nigerians would agree that the central enemy in the country is corruption and the fight against this cancerous societal tumor has been overwhelming for everyone. No day passes without more distressful news about bribery in the millions, in naira, pounds, or dollars. This goes on and on with no apparent end. So what else could be done? This is a good time to raise more questions as they relate to putting alarm in the minds and hearts of the would-be-corrupt officials who serve as potential threats to our national security. The new National Assembly is said to be reconstructing and updating the Constitution, hopefully with open, strong, and penetrating input from the public as they are the ultimate bearers of the symptoms of the www.iiste.org

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