Rather than prosecute corruption cases, Justice Minister Abubakar Malami has been ending them off since 2015 by filling Nolle Prosequi instead.
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana said this on Thursday at a HEDA Resource Centre situation room. He spoke on “State of Anti-corruption in Nigeria: Assessment of 2021 and Agenda for 2022’.
“The ministry of justice has not prosecuted one corruption case since 2015. The president must be told this,” he said.
“On the contrary, some of the cases are deliberately destroyed by the ministry through what they call prosecution Nolle Prosequi.”
Nolle Prosequi means not prosecuting.
“That is if somebody has stolen N20bn an application would be filled in the court by the Attorney General saying we are not willing to prosecute,” the right activits said.
“The use of this must stop if we want to fight corruption, let everyone be taken to court and convince the court that he has no case to answer.”
Falana also said without the passage of all pending anti-corruption bills at the national assembly the regime would not be taken seriously with its fight against corruption.
Malami was appointed in 2015, and has remained justice minister and AGF since then in administration whose head and President Muhammadu Buhari was once reputed as anti-corruption czar in Africa.