The Nigerian government has been advised to go beyond signing international treaties to domesticating them and turning the treaties into laws.
At a peer review forum in Abuja on Monday, the Acting Director of International Law at the Ministry of Justice, Mr Pius Oteh, said treaties ratified at international level without domestic legislation to back them up, fail to achieve the targets for which they were designed.
He pointed out that under such conditions the benefits such instruments should afford the country and the people would be lost.
Mr Oteh said despite the gains made over the years to ratify and domesticate treaties, much more effort was still required to ensure that Nigeria’s legislature would adopt the laws in time so that Nigeria and Africa as a whole would not be left behind in the comity of nations.