Under the ICPC Establishment Act, provisions are made for the protection of anybody who gives information to the commission in respect of an offence committed or likely to be committed by any other person.
Mr Abdu while presenting the committee’s report at plenary proposed two years imprisonment with option of N100,000 fine as punishment for anybody making false allegation against any individual.
He proposed that the option of a N100,000 fine should be removed from the punishment recommended for making false allegations against any individual. While Mr Ailero was speaking, many of the senators echoed that the punishment for making false allegations through petitions or other means should be between five to ten years imprisonment without option of fine.
Mr Lawan submitted that if there is no option of fine, “those who want to commit the offence will have to think twice.”
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