AGF Enjoins Legal Practitioners To Entrench Justice, Fair Play In The Polity, By ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano

MINISTER of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, (AGF) Abubakar Malami, (SAN ) has said that  legal practitioners have a pivotal role to play in fighting all forms of vices that will retard development at all level of governance.

The AGF maintained  that given the role of lawyers as social mobilisers and  vanguard of the rights of the people in the Society, there is the need for them to work in synergy with other judicial  officers in the land to ensure justice prevails in the Country.

Speaking at the NBA  Kano branch, Law Week 2022, Malami enjoined  lawyers to remain committed to the cause of justice without recourse to discriminatory tendencies .

The AGF represented by the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, on  Public Prosecution, Rabiu Yusuf Hausawa  described as timely,  the NBA Kano Law Week 2022 with the theme : Legal Practice at Crossroads: Challenges of lawyering In The Face of Nigeria’s Current Political and Economic Climate.

He assured that the federal government of Nigeria  is committed to  the execution of policies that will usher free and fair elections that all will be proud of.

He further urged  Nigerian lawyers to always be vigilant in handling rising challenges that are associated with all facets of  national development.