Justice Evelyn Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on
Friday, withdrew herself from a suit seeking to void the Senior
Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, the rank of the Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, over
alleged official misconduct.
At the resumed proceeding on the matter that was brought before
the court by a constitutional lawyer, Mr Jideobi Johnmary, Justice
Maha, announced that she had decided to recuse herself from the
matter.
Justice Maha based her action on a petition pending against her
before the Chief Judge of the High Court, alleging that she would
be biased in the matter.
She said it would be in the interest of justice to return the
case-file to the CJ for it to be re-assigned to another Judge of
the court for the hearing.
The lawyer had in his suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/807/2018, prayed
the court to strip Malami’s SAN rank, accusing him of engaging in
unprofessional conduct.
The plaintiff alleged that Malami had in contravention of his
statutory duty as the AGF, encouraged the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led government to ignore valid court injunctions, among
which he said included six separate court orders that granted bail
to the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo
Dasuki, retd.
He told the court that Malami had in a media interview last
year, maintained that Dasuki would not be released on bail,
notwithstanding the court orders.
Consequently, he is praying the court to among other things,
determine, “Whether upon a community reading and complete
understanding of Sections 1(1), 150 (1) and 287(3) of the amended
1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria read alongside
Rule 1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners
2007, the Defendant is not bound to exercise the powers of his
office and discharge his functions thereunder ONLY in accordance
with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria 1999 as amended?
“Whether upon a community reading and complete understanding of
Sections 1(1), 150 (1) and 287(3) of the amended 1999 Constitution
read alongside Rule 1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for
Legal Practitioners 2007, the Defendant has not violated his oath
of office as Senior Advocate of Nigeria and failed in his duty as a
Legal Practitioner [more so the Chief Law Officer of the
Federation] by defending the refusal of the Federal Government of
Nigeria to obey six valid Court Orders directing it to release a
former National Security Adviser [Rtd. Colonel Dasuki] having been
admitted to bail and met all the conditions attached to the said
bails.
As well as “Whether upon a community reading and complete
understanding of Sections 1(1), 150 (1) and 287(3) of the amended
1999 Constitution read alongside Rule 1 of the Rules of
Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners 2007, the Defendant
has not desecrated the Nigerian Constitution, his oath of office
both as the Attorney-General of the Federation and as a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria is not only failing to support the Constitution
but to assault same by his defence of the refusal of the Federal
Government of Nigeria to release a former National Security Adviser
[Rtd. Colonel Dasuki] despite valid court orders admitting him to
bail?”
Upon determination of the issues, the plaintiff wanted the court
to declare that going by provisions of Sections 1(1), 150 (1) and
287(3) of the amended 1999 Constitution read alongside Rule 1 of
the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners 2007, the
Defendant, “has desecrated the Nigerian Constitution, his oath of
office both as the Attorney-General of the Federation and as a
Senior Advocate of Nigeria is not only failing to support the
Constitution but to assault same by his defence of the refusal of
the Federal Government of Nigeria to release a former National
Security Adviser [Rtd. Colonel Dasuki] despite valid court orders
admitting him to bail”.
He is further seeing for, “A declaration that the Defendant is
unfit and unworthy to continue to bear the privileged rank of a
Senior Advocate of Nigeria in view of the interview he granted and
published on the 19th day of July, 2018 [by Premium Times online
newspaper] wherein he defended, justified and approved of the
violation of Section 287(3) of the amended 1999 Constitution by the
Federal Government of Nigeria which otherwise he took a solemn oath
to support and defend”.
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Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Sabo Nanono
FG launches Gender Policy to deepen
Women Involvement in Agricbusiness
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,
Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono has launched the National Gender Policy
in Agriculture. The Document would promote and ensure the adoption
of gender sensitive and responsive approaches towards engendering
plans and programmes, in such a way that men and women have equal
access and control of productive resources and facilities to bridge
gender gaps.
Speaking at the launch held in Abuja, Alhaji Sabo
Nanono, said that the document would provide a policy direction for
the different roles of women and men in Agriculture for development
and gender equality in access to resources as well as equal
opportunities in maximizing means of livelihood and also necessary
condition for progressively realizing the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
Nanono further said that ‘’ the National Gender Policy
in Agriculture is expected to drastically reduce the vulnerability
of women to biases in agriculture, address the unequal gender power
relation and bridge gender gap’’
He explained that ‘’ when implemented will
be a tool for achieving gender – based reforms and increasing
productivity by men and women along all the value chains in the
sector improves food security ,reduces hunger, poverty and sustain
the livelihoods of men and women who rely on agricultural value
chains for common good’’
The Minister stressed that ‘’ this event no doubt, is
a unique platform aimed at contributing to the attainment of the
on- going agricultural reforms and development agenda of the
present administration’’
He informed that ‘’the National Gender
Policy in Agriculture is hinged on the National Gender
Policy (2006) and its Strategic Implementation Framework (2008) as
developed by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social
Development’’.
He emphasized that ‘’ it is important to note that
women make up about 50% of Nigeria’s population
and are responsible for carrying out 70% of agricultural labour,
50% of animal husbandry related activities and 60% of food
processing activities but have access to less than 20% of available
agricultural resources which is a serious impediment to their
maximizing agricultural production and that is why the launch of
this policy document is apt’’.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the occasion and
Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Sen. Dr. Abdullahi
Adamu, said that the role of women in the Agricultural sector
cannot be overemphasized because ‘’ women are in involved in all
the processing from clearing of the farm, harvesting and packaging
of agricultural products’’
In his welcome address, the Permanent Secretary,FMARD,
Dr. Mohammed Bello Umar, represented by the Director, Special
Duties /Gender, Mr. Zubairu Abdullahi, said that ‘’ to achieve
the task of bridging gender gap in Agriculture Sector, the Ministry
apart from pursuing and encouraging the establishment of gender
friendly policies, has initiated various women friendly programmes
and activities aimed at mainstreaming gender into agricultural
activities in collaboration with relevant organizations’’
Dr M.B Umar pointed out that ‘’ as a Ministry, we are
committed to the socio-economic empowerment of women and men in the
sector. We therefore, acknowledge, acting in line with the
Sustainable Development Goals declaration, that gender equality is
a prerequisite for eradicating poverty and promoting sustainable
human development’’.
For: Director, Information (FMARD)