Nigerian senate
Nigerian laws under check by senate. The Senate has charged its Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters Committee with coordinating with the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation to begin the process of rewriting the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
During Tuesday’s plenary, Senator Sheu Kaka (APC, Borno Central) sponsored a resolution.
The Laws of the Federation of Nigeria were an alphabetical list of Nigerian laws that were updated on a regular basis.
The compilation of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria was carried out under the authority of the Attorney General of the Federation, subject to the approval of the National Assembly through an Act.
In his argument, Kaka claimed that the statutes in the LFN were adopted in separate years before and after Nigeria’s independence, despite the fact that they were collectively referred to as “LFN 2004.”
He said, “The LFN has remained unrevised for almost two decades, with the implication that the several laws enacted in Nigeria from 1 January 2003 till date remain excluded from the compilation.
“There was an attempt to revise the LFN in 2010 but the effort had no legal framework of the National Assembly approving it.”
He further voiced worry that the continuous non-revision of LFN has not only left many legislation out of the compilation, but has also preserved many repealed statutes, resulting in confusion and other harmful consequences.
Furthermore, he stated, “the non-compilation of the several federal statutes leads to a death of knowledge of many existing laws on the part of Nigerians, especially students, lecturers, researchers, lawyers, legislators, and judges among others.”
He stated that the revision of the LFN was long overdue and that it will be in the interest of democratic governance in Nigeria to begin the revision process immediately.