The screening of the ministerial nominees entered the third day on Friday as the Senate screened Abubakar Malami, a ministerial nominee from Kebbi State.
Mr Malami is the immediate past Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF.
Mr Malami, while fielding questions at the Senate Committee of the Whole, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to sign some bills passed by the Senate stemmed from absence of intense collaborations in the various processes of passing the bills.
He said that there was the need to establish deep rooted collaborations from conception of a bill to convocation of public hearing to seek input of varied opinions for the good of the public.
Mr Malami said that the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, was refused assent because public interest was not factored in the bill.
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He said that the PIGB passed provided more priority to the individual more than the public interest.
He also said the federal government had also taken up polices that would ensure the independence on funding of the Judiciary.
According to Mr Malami, the justice ministry under his watch had facilitated the prosecution of 63 terrorism cases and secured 59 convictions.
He said the Federal Government through the ministry had also increased the recovering of looted public funds in 2015 from N19 billion to N279 billion in 2018.
Mr Malami, who got commendations for his laudable contributions as AGF was later asked to take a bow.
