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General News of Friday, 22 January 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Buhari open to criticism, Malami says

File photo: Abubakar Malami File photo: Abubakar Malami

Abubakar Malami, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice has stated that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is not opposed to constructive and objective criticisms.

He made the statement yesterday, January 21, 2021, during the 2021 national conference of National Association of Judiciary Correspondents (NAJUC) in Abuja.

According to Malami, President Buhari administration considered constructive and objective criticisms as an integral part of good governance, especially where appropriate solutions are proffered.

He, therefore, advised the media to give balanced, unbiased and untainted reports of activities unfolding in the society.

He said the Federal Government had done everything within the constitutional provisions to ensure the right to access to information, freedom of expression and especially press freedom.

“This can be seen from the disappearance of incessant harassment, intimidation, molestation, arrests and prosecution of media professionals as used to be the practice in the past regimes.

"This fact is attested to by the 2020 report of the Committee to Protect Journalists that Nigeria is no longer in the list of countries with impunity for crimes against journalists. The report maintained that Nigeria is the only country in the globe that get off the index from 2019,” he said.