ABTRACT
It is a known fact that every new experience or acknowledgement Comes with new challenges in a world where reasons prevails, most often genuine effort are made by all and sundry to see that the System is strengthened. Criminal justice System has been said to mean the entire of Institutions, rules and practices aimed at Social control, for the prevention, detention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of criminals.
However, to some reasonable extent the rules and practices aimed at social control have failed the country in many instances. The practice of plea bargain in Nigeria has generated a lot of controversy in recent years. The economic and financial crimes commission has recently been applying the concept to release many corrupt public officers who Should have been in jail. The ideal is that they agree to plead guilty for a lesser charge With minimal punishment in exchange for the return of most of their stolen wealth. The opponent of this practices believe that the end result of the practice would be counterproductive in the fight against corruption as it will encourage other public officers to steal public Money.
Nevertheless, most participants in the plea bargaining process find the practice as a Panacea in the administration of criminal Justice, to many its conflicts their sense of Justice for the betraying thieves of the public Finances or savings, it is incomprehensible to them how highly placed thieves of Millions and Billons of naira are allowed to get away with miserably small sentence in the name of plea bargain, while thieves of smaller sums or thieves of the same millions and billion of naira, but without the high level placement or connection bag the weighty sentences. Generally more commensurate to their offences consequently. Many question the justifiability and legality of the practice, saying that it alien to Nigerian statute on criminal matters and downright unfair.
