Nwanyanwu made the call in an interview with reporters in Abuja on Monday.
He suggested that government should treat cases of corruption as “crimes against humanity” while advocating for separate courts to try the offenders.
``Until we have strong laws that will put people to check and question them on what they did while in office, we will not develop the Nigerian society,’’ he said.
He also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to tackle election fraud to ensure that the peoples’ votes count.
``There should be a very good electoral law because if a candidate is elected by the people, he will work for their welfare because he will need their mandate to return.’’
He stressed the need for politicians to eschew `godfatherism’ in Nigerian politics, saying that politics should never be seen as `a do or die affair’.
Nwanyanwu urged the government and political stakeholders to find ways to eradicate poverty and unemployment in order to improve on the nation’s workforce.
He identified years of waste and missed opportunities as responsible for the high degree of poverty, unemployment and other socio-economic problems in the country.
According to him, the rights of Nigerians to education, shelter and healthcare must be constitutionally guaranteed not as a theoretical provision but one which governments should respect.
He, however, said that every Nigerian child should be entitled to education whether the parents could afford the fees or not.
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