The 4 core principles or pillars of AYM in its fight against corruption are: Transparency, Awareness, Strengthenning the Criminal Justice System and Increasing Judicial Efficiency. It is belived that if these 4 pillars of Government and Society are strengthened to a degree not yet seen, that with time the standard of living of every Nigerian will increase significantly. To illustarte the comprehensive nature of these four pillars and why AYM is of the opinion that focussing on them alone is sufficient, lets describe each of them one by one. Transparency The first step in solving any problem is recognizing the problem itself as well as its scope. Recently there has been a lot of controversy over Nasarawa State Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura's Son's Alleged N1.5B Wedding In U.S. One can only speculate exactly where this money came from, the fact that it was'nt discovered missing from any paticular state project or initiative is disturbing. We may have never even known anything was amiss if he had'nt so brazenly spent such an amount at the same time. The first step in stopping such madness is mandating a transparent way of declaring budget allocations from the federal level to local governmnet level, so the people who they serve may keep track. Since this paticular document does not discuss in detail any methods of acheieving any paticular core onjective ormilestone. Since it is merely a high level outline documenting the movements operational and intellectual structure. It will not go into the idea of an online campaign to collect a million signatures for a petition to be presented the FEC to approve a draft of a bill mandating onine publication of budgets from federal to state to local government level. What this document will say is that according to the International Budget Partnership, the biennial survey, which commenced in 2006 assesses whether the central government in each country surveyed makes eight key budget documents available to the public, as well as whether the data contained in these documents is comprehensive, timely, and useful. The survey uses internationally accepted criteria to assess each country’s budget transparency developed by multilateral organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). The scores on 95 of the 125 Open Budget Survey questions are used to calculate objective scores and rankings of each surveyed country’s relative transparency. These composite scores constitute the Open Budget Index (OBI). The International Budget Partnership is the world’s only independent and comparative measure of budget transparency. Nigeria’s score of 16% is a show of consistent descent in the transparent process expected of governments in the management of public resources. This score is below the 18% per cent Nigeria notched in 2010, 19% in 2008 and 20%, the oil-rich country attained in 2006. It is a very poor performance when compared with the average score of 43% for all the 100 countries surveyed. It is also lower than the scores of its neighbours – Ghana, Liberia, Sao-Tome and Principe and Sierra- Leone. The IBP report, made available to the media, says that “Nigeria’s score indicates that the government provides the public with scant information on the national government’s budget and financial activities during the course of the budget year. This makes it challenging for citizens to hold the government accountable for its management of the public’s money.”(a) Strengthenning the Criminal Justice System At this point ordinary citizens are supposed to be able to step back and the criminal justice system is supposed to step forward. Once it is brought to light that someone may be guilty of ill use of state funds, arressts and investigations are supposed to made. Much has been made of the many problems the police force in Nigeria. Its all over news and social media. No need to document them here but it safe to say that this is one institution that AYM needs to strongly consider directing significant thought toward strengthenning. Either by somehow having a say in government “efforts” or aligning with the private sector and community organizing efforts. The Nigerian Federal Executive Council (FEC) in 2010 approved a draft Bill for an Act to provide for the establishment of the Nigeria Police Reform Trust Fund. The aim of the creation of this bill is to establish a trust fund to make more money available to the police for its operations. The billwas drafted and is available to read online but in Abuja 10 months ago the House of Representative rejected the bill without offering any alternatives(b) At the state level some good things are being in done(at least in states like lagos). Take the Fashola inspired Lagos state securtiy trust fund. Its run by just 7 members. They go around collecting money from the likes of MTN,Airtel,and others (who willingly give because their operations are enhanced by nan increase in security) etc and use it to buy equipment and trainning for local police agencies. In their own words “the members are persons with the right experience and who have earned public confidence in the management of public funds and public affairs. The idea of establishing the fund which would be modeled on a public/private arrangement became imperative when the Governor received and reviewed the report of the high powered Security Committee he established under the chairmanship of Alhaji Musiliu Smith, former Inspector General of Police, to look into ways and means of combating the growing menace of violent crimes in the state and the seeming inability of the police to confront this challenge in spite of their best endeavours. A review of the report made it crystal clear that the problem was essentially related to logistics, mobility, communications, kitting and so on especially when considering the peculiar challenges the state poses. It was the finding of the Security committee that a minimum of N3.7B was required as the cost of providing standard security cover for Lagos State including the waterways. The final pillar is Increasing Juducial Efficiency (How do you get people to effectively sentence themselves to death?) All roads lead here. Assuming the criminal justice system is doing its job and the police are mking their arrests, then next,and final step lies with the judicial system proper. This is where pillars 1-3 bring us. After a fair trial convictions are supposed to be made in a timely manner and sentences served. To cut a long story short somehow we need to get the FEC to approve a death sentence for corruption bill. No one, even the president or cabinet memebers are to be exempt from investigation. The Senate President should be urged to in turn urge his senate to push this through immediately and it should be effective as soon as possible with no immunity for present members. The country is really in a state of emergency. He needs to be told in clear terms that those who deserve death penalty are government officials, politicians, civil servants and those in top tier private concerns who enrich themselves through corrupt means and at the detriment of the well being of the nation or other private concerns as the case may be,and also electoral robbers. These are the worst of crimes and deserve the worst of punishments. AYM is obviosly not going to be involved in drafting the bill, there are qualified lawyers,civil rights leaders,etc that can do all of that. AYM's advice though is that the defendant should be tried in a brand new one of a kind special court with specially appointed judges. Intense scrutiny has to made into the appoinment of said judges who themselves are not immune from investigation and prosecution by the court of their peers. In short people need to die. Many people need to die. Publicily. Ministers, senators, folks in the house of representatives, your blood can save this nation. AYM wont name names but a lot of people currently in office need to be put to death as soon as possible in my opinion, they've already been found guilty of corruption by anybody paying attention, but we can try them in the court one by one once the bill is passed just to make it official. Does this sound harsh? Yes, but you cant deny the logic.When you're that high up the risks should be higher too right? If your an average joe on the street caught bribing someone for something and get taken to jail, its for a crime that only affects a few, when your an elected official you're effectively stealing from millions of people, it makes sense your punishment should be significantly more severe. Its not unprecedented either.The Chinese know exactly what they're doing. Capital punishment for heinous crimes like corruption has widespread support there, why not here? If you're against it then dont run for office. Simply put. After we rid ourselves of the present crop of politicians we can then elect new officals who would then have the necessary fear of God in them. They would know based on their predecessors that corruption is not an option, lest they be put to death. Untill this happens there will be no change. One set of corropt politicians will just keep handing over the baton to the next set.(d)