Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, former minister of national guidance, has prescribed a punishment for looters of public funds.
Maitama Sule said public officials convicted of looting should be banned from partisan politics and government offices.
In an interview on Sunday, the elderstatesman recommended that the ban should be backed by a law passed by the national assembly.
“This will be possible when there is a law to back it and we hope the law will be enacted soon to support the idea,” he said
Maitama Sule said the fear of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had become the “beginning of wisdom” for public officers.
“EFCC has done extremely well in the discharge of its responsibilities so far, as there are a lot of recovered looted funds now,” he said.
“But the biggest challenge for EFCC is that it can investigate but it does not have the power to spend money and utilise it for other purposes.”
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