Former Lagos State Solicitor-General, Fola Arthur-Worrey, yesterday said the battle against impunity in the country can only be won, if efficient state machinery and institutions are put in place.
He added that such institutional reforms must function efficiently and free of political as well as elite interference.
Arthur-Worrey said: “It is in our own enlightened self interest that we create and support such machinery”.
He spoke at the annual lecture of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja Branch, with the theme: “Curtailing the culture of impunity in our national life” organised as part of the activities marking the branch’s Law Week at the Multi-Purpose Hall of Lagos Television, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.
The former Solicitor-General, who is also the Executive Secretary, Lagos State Security Trust Fund, lamented the failure of the country’s public institutions to effectively moderate and serve as control mechanism over human conduct.
He regretted that the country breeds weak institutions “that seem only to play the role of being no more than ready tools for personal and group agendas and which hardly carry out their mandates as determined by the laws that establish them.