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Malcolm Omirhobo, a lawyer and human rights activist, has advocated the death penalty for public officials found guilty of corruption. 

Omirhobo spoke on Sunday during an interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on 90MinutesAfrica.

The human rights activist said persons who dip their hands in the public till do not deserve to live, adding that corruption is killing Nigerians.

He added that only the death penalty can deter public officials from engaging in acts of corruption.

“I am a proponent of the death sentence,” he said.

“These people should be tied to the stake and shot. They don’t deserve to live. Corruption kills. Nigerians are wasting away due to corruption.”

The lawyer averred that the Nigerian system has not evolved to the point of abolishing the death sentence.

He added that many past and present Nigerian leaders cannot explain their sources of wealth.

The lawyer bemoaned the scale of corruption in the country following the report of the special investigation panel led by Jim Obazee, a private investigator, on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other entities.

Omirhobo became an internet sensation in 2022 when he attended a supreme court proceeding dressed like a juju priest.

He said he was motivated to dress that way because he believes that the supreme court’s decision affirming the rights of Muslim female students to wear hijab to school, also means that adherents of other religions — including African traditional religion — have a right to wear their own attires to official functions.