THE ADAPTATION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION MODEL IN ADDRESSING CRIMES OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have become essential instruments for mediating in societies fractured and laden with systematic and widespread criminal atrocities. By explorative and descriptive design the study has relied upon secondary data to theorise on the adaptation, in Nigeria, of the South African TRC model, as a forum, which could represent an alternative or an extension to the penal justice system for addressing crimes of corruption. One of the issues that arises is whether such forum would represent a competing or reconcilable paradigm. After noting the ineffectiveness of anti-corruption institutions in Nigeria, this study concludes the attraction of the TRC model as an alternative to the traditional penal justice system could lay within its capacity to retain the elements of retribution, rehabilitation and deterrence of the traditional criminal justice system and to introduce the value of reconciliation into the system. This study further concludes that this could create the incentive for an efficient dispensation of justice leading to the basis for a more harmonious society. It suggests the adaptation of the TRC model’s enduring legacy could be achieved by some necessary modifications of the country's constitutional and penal codes or even as an extension of existing penal codes.
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Kate Turabian