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The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Tuesday called on all ministries, departments and government agencies to transmit to the National Depository of Treaties domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Justice all executed agreements, memoranda of understanding, and treaties in their custody.
The minister also told them to make known to the ministry those to be entered in the future in their original form.
The minister made this call at the commissioning of the National Depository of Treaties in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to the minister, the electronic National Depository of Treaties will serve as the depository of all treaties entered into between the government of the federation and any other country of any ministry, agency or department in line with Section 4 of the Treaties (Making Procedure, Etc.) Act Cap. T20 Laws of the Federation (LFN) 2004, which domiciled in
the National Depository of Treaties in the Federal Ministry of Justice.
The minister said the call was in further compliance with the Service-wide, Circular Reference No. HCSF/LU/FEC/M/938 dated 2nd March, 2017 issued by the head of the civil service of the Federation as directed by the Federal Executive Council.
“It is our hope that very soon the National
Depository of Treaties will be in the cloud for a more global outlook and accessibility from any part of the world.
“It is about transparency, accessibility, and order in line with the tenements of Open Government Partnership and access to justice which the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to upholding,” he said.
Malami said the goals of the project were to achieve functional National Depository of Treaties, maintain a comprehensively updated register of treaties and ensure that all treaties, agreement, and protocols entered into by the government are preserved.
