Other lawmakers have raised issued with the original amendment's wording as well, saying it could impact officials convicted of crimes
other than corruption.
He claimed on public television that he will not release two individuals, Nnamdi Kanu, the Biafran activist whose charges are (now) related to treason
rather than corruption; and former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki.
Sub-standard behaviour, from the citizen's perspective, is no less corrosive of trust and
confidence than corruption, even it is unlikely to arrive in a criminal court.
Speaking to Ekourba Gyasi on Atinka AM Drive, General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Aseidu Nketia explained that dishonesty is killing
Ghana than corruption.
The governor, who insisted that due process of the law must be followed in fighting corruption, noted that disobedience to court orders itself is a criminal offence that is more
grievous than corruption.
«Systemic incompetence is much harder to
fix than corruption,» she said, «and New Orleans had both.»
In the last three years the Office of Judicial Complaints (OJC) received 5,407 complaints about misconduct (
rather than corruption), though this does not represent all complaints made against the 3,600 judges, 7,000 tribunal members and 29,000 magistrates.
«Take a very simple issue; the government is very concerned about corruption, nothing can more interest
me than corruption because it's done fundamental damage to Nigeria.