A former Minister of Special Duties, Kabir Turaki, on Tuesday, called for a review of some of the existing laws to engender good governance and development in the country.
Mr Turaki, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), made the call in Abuja at a book launch to mark the 59th birthday of Abubakar Sulaiman, the director-general, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS).
The book, entitled: ‘An Introduction to Comparative Legislative Drafting”, a collection of essays, was edited by Tonye Jaja, in honour of Mr Sulaiman, a professor.
Mr Turaki said that laws and policies were essential tools for social engineering and critical to regulating human behaviours.
He argued that such laws and policies could only come through quality legislative drafting.
“Legislative drafting is very necessary when a policy is about to be transformed into a legislative framework.
“It is very significant for the purpose of amendments of existing legislations.
“We…