Abubakar Malami
Malami declares Journey
Abubakar Malami
Malami declares Journey to reform Judiciary,
improve Rule Law
The Honourable Attorney General of Federation and
Minister of Justice, Malami Abubakar recently avowed his commitment
to improve the Rule of Law, Enforcement and Compliance.
He affirmed this at the reception organised in his
honour by the Ministry as he was re-appointed Attorney General of
Federation and Minister of Justice by President Mohammudu
Buhari.
According to him, Nigeria had been infected with
undesirable crisis that is threatening to divide the
country as some group are calling for Separation while others
Restructuring. He attributed such calls to the long years of
failure of the justice system which has created a very vulnerable
political environment, such as lack of compliance with rule of law,
low capacity to enforce laws, lack of patriotism, delayed justice
that lead to congestion in prisons, corruption etc.
“May I inform you that the major reason for the
seeming failure of our system is the structural defects of our
constitution and laws, non-adherence to laws, institutional failure
of enforcements and dyfunctionality of our judicial system which
only judicial reforms can reverse if we must exist as a
nation?”
He stressed further, “Society where laws are observed
in breach than in observance, such a society will automatically
degenerate to Hobbesian state of nature when life was brutish,
whimsical and short “. He prayed such would not b