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Vice-President-elect, Prof.Yemi Osinbajo, says the lack of consequence for corrupt practices is the reason why people get away with crimes in the country.

While delivering the keynote address at the Abuja edition of The Platform on Friday, May 1, Osinbajo said the incoming administration would ensure zero tolerance for corruption by reforming the Justice system.

He said, “We have always talked about zero tolerance for corruption but it is also important that people are made to understand that there will be consequence for corruption.

“What we have seen so far is that there is hardly any consequence and people simply get away with it and if you get away with it often, it sends a message to everyone, that there is no problem, and we need to fix that whole thinking that there has to be a consequence for corrupt practices.

“People have to explain for instance, if you are a public servant that how come that you have 50 houses. Somebody needs to ask you those questions and some of the reasons people get away with that is our criminal justice system.”

“Our criminal justice system needs to be fixed. The system is slow and it almost always ensures that people who have been charged with offenses would not be tried forever and after a while people forget that people are being tried.”

“We have to fix that criminal justice system to ensure that criminal trials are speedy and that anyone who is guilty of an offense will be punished for that offense.

“We need to look at law and order. The question of policing our society, how do we police this country. At the moment we know that policing is ineffective.”

“If the police wants to deal with the criminals, you and I know that they are hampered from doing so, they are hampered structurally, they are hampered by the fact that they are not as well equipped as they ought to be, and they are not resourced as they ought to be, but the structural problem is the major one.”

“A country of this size needs some form of community policing because criminality is always local, we need to have policemen who understand the local language, who live in the community, who understand the language. So there is a logic in it to have community policing.”