Senator Gabriel Suswam, representing Benue east senatorial district and former governor of Benue state has said that Nigerian politicians cannot be proper leaders until they have spent a day or two in prison cells.
Senator Suswam, who is currently being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for an alleged N3.2 billion fraud, said this while making a contribution to a motion on prison decongestion by Uche Ekwunife, senator representing Anambra central.
The Senator said that based on his experience at the time he was remanded in prison, it will be good for intending leaders to spend time in prison and also be there to learn some lessons TheCable reported.
“I want to support this motion based on my experience. When I left prison, I recommended that for people to be proper leaders in this country, at least each and everyone of us must spend one or two days in prison.”
“I sat down there from morning till evening because there were a lot of young people there,” he said.
“And it might interest you to know that what they spend years in prison for… are demeanour you can easily dismiss. There was a young man who has spent 10 years there for just a problem of N10,000.
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“Various individuals were there on very minor offences that the police can afford to correct them and send them home.”