Former Pro-Chancellor and Chairman Governing Council, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Chief Bolaji Ayorinde (SAN), has warned the country’s public office holders to endeavour to shun corrupt practices.
Ayorinde gave this advice on Thursday at the second alumni lecture organised by the Law Students’ Society of the University of Ibadan, in honour of renowned member of the bar, Mr. Adebayo Adenipekun, who was inducted into the ‘Roll of Honour’ at the New Auditorium, Faculty of Law of the university.
The former Pro-Chancellor, who was the guest lecturer at the event, noted that the nation’s political office-holders to nip corruption in the bud.
Most of them, he said, disregard the oath of office they took while they were being sworn into offices.
According to him, the Nigerian leaders that have converted the commonwealth of the country to personal property will, after all, be prosecuted either locally or by the international court.
This, he said, was possible as a result of the existence of international law as the world continued to be increasingly globalised with the development of information technology.
Ayorinde, in his lecture ‘Sovereign Immunity and the trails of Agusto Pinochet,’ said, “International law is the most recent addition in the line of established legal logics and jurisprudence. It is certainly now time for us to begin to draw greater attention to the realm of international law which is a body of laws that govern the legal relations between or among states or nations of the world.”
He made reference to the case of President of the Republic of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, whose administration allegedly implemented harsh and stringent measures against persons considered to be political opponents.
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