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<\/p>\nTsav made the comments in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Makurdi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201cOur politicians do not believe in God and the nothingness of this world. They don\u2019t even think of death.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur democracy is turning into something else. We seem not to know what democracy even means. Many see it as a means to acquire wealth albeit by fraudulent and dishonest means,\u201d Tsav said.<\/p>\n
He said unless the courts expedite trial of accused corrupt public officials and possibly convict them to serve as deterrents to others, many would continue to indulge in corrupt practice.<\/p>\n
Tsav said public condemnation without commiserate punishment by the law would not deter corrupt officials in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fight against corruption has no impact on our people and that is why politicians are still fighting and killing themselves for elective offices.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the courts expedite trial of accused persons facing corruption charges in various courts, perhaps their conviction will serve as a deterrent to others.
\n\u201cThis will slow down the urge and madness for corruption,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Tsav further said developments at the just concluded Kogi governorship election showed that it was time for full amendment of the electoral laws to accommodate stiffer punishment for electoral offenders.<\/p>\n
He also condemned the killing of the state\u2019s PDP Women Leader after the election, describing it as the most horrible thing he has heard of in recent times.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am happy that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered for a thorough investigation on this dastardly act with a view to bringing all those involved, no matter their status to justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuhari should go beyond that. The electoral laws should be amended for true democracy to take root.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy sad experience during my days in the Nigeria Police Force, was that, where government was interested in a case; such case does not see the light of the day. Let that not happen in this case o!\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav on Tuesday said most politicians in Nigeria do not believe in God. Tsav made the comments in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Makurdi on Tuesday. According to him, \u201cOur politicians do not believe in God and the nothingness of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8642,250,61],"class_list":["post-170565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-abubakar-tsav","tag-lagos","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}