By Francis Nansak
Delivering his professorial inaugural Lecture a professor of Public Law ,Professor Abdulkarim Abubakar Kana of the Nasarawa State University Keffi has critically X-Ray areas where the law has failed and reeled out solutions by recommending certain components that could strengthens the justice system in both the state and at the national levels.
Speaking on the topic ” Why The Law Fail: Analyzing the Shortcomings of Nigeria Laws and Implications for Justice” on Wednesday ,professor Abdulkarim Kana ,who is also the National Legal Adviser of the ruling All Progressive Congress said the challenges leading to failure of the law are treacibly to poor legislative and executive misinterpretation and passing bills into law by legislator without enforcement of same on the life of the nation or a state.
” You have heard in the course of my presentation ,I was able to bring out circumstances where the law would said to have failed.and what need to be done to prevent failures of laws and when the laws have fallen what needs to be done.
“And one of those solutions is that the laws needs to be restructured ,where is not reconstructed it will failed.Then secondly,when the laws are reconstructed it has to be properly implemented without compromises and corruption.
” The executives that implement the laws most also implement or interpret it properly without fear or favours” He added.
Taking the bull by the horns the university don pointed that if only the law can be strengthens and enforced by the authorities concerned without corrupting it by playing favoritism , compromise and corruption, the law will become superior and defaulters will avoid criminal tendencies .
Reacting to controversy that is playing out at the National Assembly between the Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senator Natasha Akpoti, vis vasa the case of rivers State in an interview with journalists ,the public law don directed that chapter 3 of his inaugural Lecture speaks volume on the implication of the rights of the woman,stating that there is need for a careful study in that regards.
” But in the case of of River State,unfortunately is a reaction against an action which now is a wake up call to all those who are charged with duty and responsibility of managing the democratic structure of the country to know that these structures must be nurtured ” Prof Kana averred.
Earlier in her address, the Vice Chancellor ,Nasarawa State University Keffi, Professor Sa’adatu Hassan Liman said the inaugural lecture is a reverend academic tradition that serves as a platform for the justification of the appointment and promotion of a professor.
She revealed that in fulfilling such tasked the faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences is leading others with 12 inaugural lectures ,followed by the faculty of Arts which had 10 and the the faculty of Agriculture had 8 ,with others as the faculty of Administration having 6,faculty of Education,5 .Social sciences with 4 ,while the faculty of Law had 2 ” plus today’s lecture which steps it up” She numerated.
She stressed that the inaugural lecture presented by professor Kana was particularly relevant for it highlights the challenges and shortcomings of our legal system,which is mainly man made laws in promoting justice,stability and development in any society is far from the ideal
