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Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Itse Sagay, has said it is a waste of effort to jail corrupt persons.
Sagay stated this during a workshop organised by the committee in collaboration with the National Orientation Agency, NOA, in Jos, Plateau state, on Wednesday, June 19.
Sagay who was represented at the workshop by a PACAC member identified as Etannibi Alemika, said after an evaluation, he discovered that jailing corrupt people in the country was “making no sense” due to the weakness in the judicial process.
He said: “Corruption has primarily been fought by the Federal Government in the country. There is too much focus on financial corruption but the truth is that nepotism is a more serious problem.
“After our evaluation in the fight against corruption, we discovered that jailing people is a desperate and wasteful effort.
"It is going to be difficult to have convictions because of the weakness in the judicial institution. And that is why we have concentrated more on asset seizure of corrupt people as the way to go.”
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