Kano Earmarks N100m For Law Reforms

The Kano State Law Reform Commission has earmarked N100 million to reform various state laws in 2025.

Chairman of the commission, Justice Lawal Wada Muhammadu made this known shortly after he defended the commission’s 2025 budget before the committee on Judiciary at the state House of Assembly Complex yesterday.

According to him, many laws in the state are in need of reforms, a project that started earlier in the year but was unfortunately damaged and burned during the August protest in the state.

He said the whole work is starting all over again with a total budget of N100 million to reform all the laws in the coming year.

“There are many laws that are old; Some were made since before Nigeria’s independence and are as old as since 1837 and based on England law. Some of them are not even used in the country but we still have it here.

“Those are some of the reviews we want to do. The ones that are not useful will be withdrawn, and the ones that need reform will be reformed,” he noted.

Others who defended their budgets are the Kano State Radio Corporation, the state Ministry of Information, the Kano Pillars Club, Abubakar Rimi Television, the Triumph newspaper, the Kano Printing Press, and the Kano Film and Censorship Board, among others, who reinstated their commitment to utilising the resources committed in their budget to improve outputs at their various organisations.