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Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), Justice Mustapha Akanbi, has said the immunity clause in the nation's constitution has been abused.The 1999 Constitution, section 308 grants immunity to the state governors, their deputies, the president and his vice from criminal and civil proceedings.“Granting immunity itself is not the problem,'' ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2005-03-29)
Ethiopia's parliament has voted to lift the immunity of about 100 opposition MPs who are boycotting the assembly alleging huge fraud in May's elections. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi accuses the CUD opposition of using parliamentary immunity to subvert the constitution and wanting to topple his government. Opposition leader ...
Read Story at BBC News (2005-10-11)
Nigerian MPs may offer President Olusegun Obasanjo, his family members and close associates life immunity from prosecution as part of current efforts to get him to quit office when his constitutionally-allowed eight years end in 2007, according to local press reports Tuesday. "We are working on giving him life immunity ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-03-23)
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has said he supports ending immunity from prosecution for top political office holders in one of the world's most corrupt countries, although he has given no timetable to do so. Nigeria's 1999 constitution, written under military rule just before a transition to democracy, grants immunity ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2008-01-24)
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has said he supports ending immunity from prosecution for top political office holders in one of the world's most corrupt countries, although he has given no timetable to do so. Nigeria's 1999 constitution, written under military rule just before a transition to democracy, grants immunity ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2008-01-24)
France has issued a global arrest warrant for Angola"s envoy to the UN cultural agency, Unesco, according to the AFP and EFE news agencies. France accuses Pierre Falcone, a French businessman, of selling arms to Angola - violating an international embargo. Mr Falcone has limited diplomatic immunity ...
Read Story at BBC News (2004-01-16)
Peter Odili has immunity for eight years as governor of Rivers state Nigeria`s anti-corruption agency says it is appealing against a decision to grant immunity to a former governor of an oil-rich state. On Wednesday a court ruled that Peter Odili could not be prosecuted by the Economic and ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2008-03-08)
Hong Kong lawmakers and human rights activists have called for the wife of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to be banned from the city after she was granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged assault. Grace Mugabe granted immunity Grace Mugabe assaults photographer Grace Mugabe, 43, escaped prosecution for ...
Read Story at Sunday Times (2009-03-24)
APeoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and senatorial aspirant for Lagos West federal constituency, Mr Olatunji Sanni, yesterday said the immunity clause as provided by the 1999 Constitution should be expunged,to remove the blanket political immunity conferred on elected public office holders.Sanni said this at a press briefing in Lagos, adding ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2006-06-28)
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Mallam Ibrahim Lamorde, yesterday in Kaduna, lamented the abuse of the immunity clause in the country’s Constitution.Lamorde said applying the “immunity clause to a ridiculous limit is now the situation where even an accused person is seeking to be tried in the comfort ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2008-05-13)
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