The Senate has mandated its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to interface with the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation to initiate the process of revising the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN) 2004.
This was sequel to a motion by Senator Kaka Lawan representing, Borno Central.
In his motion, Senator Lawan said the statutes in the LFN were enacted before and after Nigeria’s independence though they were all cited as “LFN 2004”.
He said the LFN has remained unrevised for almost two decades, which made several laws enacted from 2003 till date excluded from the compilation.
According to him, there was an attempt to revise the LFN in 2010 but the effort had no legal framework of the National Assembly approving it.
Senator Kaka Lawan expressed concern that the continued non-revision of LFN has not only left numerous statutes out of the compilation but also retained many repealed statutes with attendant confusion and other negative impacts.
He said non-compilation of the several federal statutes leads to a dearth of knowledge of many existing laws on the part of Nigerians, especially students, lecturers, researchers, lawyers, legislators, and judges among others.
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.
