Mujitaba Mohammed Mallam

{{short description|Nigerian politician}}

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|name = Mujitaba Mohammed Mallam

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|office1 = Senator for Jigawa South West

|term_start1 = 29 May 2007

|term_end1 = May 2011

|predecessor1 = Maitama Bello Yusuf

|successor1 = Abdulmumini M. Hassan

|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960}}

|birth_place = Jigawa State, Nigeria

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Mujitaba Mohammed Mallam (born 1960) was elected Senator for the Jigawa South West constituency of Jigawa State, Nigeria, taking office on 29 May 2007. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).{{cite web

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|publisher=National Assembly of Nigeria

|title=Sen. Mujitaba Mohd Mallam

|accessdate=2010-06-05}}

Mallam studied B.Sc Education Biology/Chemistry 1996 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education 2006, from Bayero University Kano.

He was appointed Commissioner of Health for Jigawa State and was elected to the Jigawa State House of Assembly, where he was appointed Speaker.

After his election to the Senate in 2007, he was appointed chairman of committees on Sports, Privatization, Housing, Health, and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.

In a mid-term evaluation of Senators in May 2009, This Day newspaper said, "he did not sponsor any bills in the last year, but sponsored and co-sponsored seven motions. His interventions were always opposite."{{cite web

|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200905250350.html?viewall=1

|title=An Improved Senate, But Some Uninspiring Senators...

|work=ThisDay

|date=24 May 2009

|accessdate=2010-06-05}}

In a 2010 discussion of an anti-terrorism bill, Mallam called for care in avoiding human rights abuses in the name of fight against terrorism.{{cite web

|url = http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/apr/29/national-29-04-2010-006.htm

|title = Anti-terrorism bill passes second reading in the Senate

|author = FRANCIS AWOWOLE-BROWNE

|date = April 29, 2010

|work = Daily Sun

|accessdate = 2010-06-06

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