Truth commission

As reported in your daily, the proposed truth and accountability commission (apparently being set up by the CTG ) would let the possessors of ill gotten money off the hook if he confesses to committing the crime and deposits the sum to the government exchequer. Independent of the question of commensurability of such a commission with the independence of the Judiciary, a confession to the commission closed doors is unlikely to have the desired deterrent effect on the same or another potential offender. In this context it is worth considering an East Asian practice, especially in Japan and Korea, where the repenting offender is required to appear before the national television to ask for pardon publicly. This requirement might be of interest also to the ACC and the Judiciary for enhancing the deterrence effect on the practice of corruption, especially by the "respectable" practitioners.