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Item Political corruption through misappropriation of covid-19 funds and reliefs in Nigeria(Faculty of Law, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria, 2020) Adeyemo, D. D.The year 2020 remains a year cast in global history for the sudden onset of a deadly disease which shut down nations of the world and imposed huge economic effects. The Covid-19 pandemic predisposed many countries, including Nigeria, to splurges in public spending to alleviate economic hardship imposed by the pandemic. Consequently, allegations of political corruption and misuse of public funds was rife in the political landscape. Over 1 billion dollars was allegedly drawn from both external and foreign sources for government spending towards Covid-19 pandemic mitigation funds. By late 2020, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook became awash with gory stories of hoarded and fraudulently converted relief materials by political and public leaders. While Nigeria has an established legal framework in combating corruption generally, it has been shown by previous studies that the legal framework has not achieved much in combating the menace of corruption from a legal standpoint. Much of the existing legal framework is reactive rather than proactive. With respect to Covid-19 response funds, emergency assistance loan to the government from international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was conditioned upon certain terms such as external and periodic audit to forestall the possibility of misappropriation and corruption. It remains to be known how far effective the terms have been. Given the nature of the allegations of corruption, would the existing legal framework apprehend the dimension of political corruption elicited by Covid-19 pandemic? This paper examines the subject of political corruption in Nigeria within the context of Covid-19 pandemic. It adopts a purely doctrinal and desktop legal research approach in analysing the existing laws on corruption and the emerging dimensions of political corruption introduced by Covid-19 induced public corruption. It proposes a more proactive approach to the subject of political corruption in Nigeria through accountability and transparency in public spending and non-legal approach which incorporates the role of non-governmental organisations.Item The prospects of the African union transitional justice policy 2019 and sustainable peace in Africa(Department of International Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-lfe, Nigeria, 2023) Adeyemo, D. D.The African Union (A U) adopted the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJ Policy) in 2019 against the backdrop of attaining sustainable peace within the African continent. The Policy was designed to serve as a continental guide to member States in the design and implementation of context-specific transitional justice programmes within their respective States. The Policy incorporates indigenous principles and elements which member States should adopt to domesticate transitional justice. Presumably, over the years, the African continent has had the highest number of States confronting conflict situations or repressive regimes. Hence, it would appear that the Policy is a timely intervention of the AU in pursuing its agenda of a peaceable and stable continent. The Policy makes several bold innovations and provisions which are potentially capable of transforming the structure for peace and security in Africa. This study attempts to examine the provisions of the Policy against the conventional narratives of transitional justice principles and mechanisms and the goal of sustainable peace. Is the Policy just another document which will wield little or less significant impact within the continent? The paper adopts a purely doctrinal and desktop review approach in analysing the provisions of the AUTJ Policy within the context of the concept of transitional justice and sustainable peace. The study makes use of data from both primary and secondary sources of law and argues that while the adoption of the Policy is an innovative move, it runs the risk of irrelevance where its provisions are merely recommendatory and elicit no binding obligations from member states.