Mujitaba Mohammed Mallam

Mujitaba Mohammed Mallam
Senator for Jigawa South West
In office 29 May 2007 – May 2011
Preceded by	Maitama Bello Yusuf
Succeeded by	Abdulmumini M. Hassan
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Born	1960 (age 56–57) Jigawa State, Nigeria

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).

Mallam gained a B.Sc Education (Biology/Chemistry) in 1996 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education, Bayero University Kano in 2006. 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 election to the Senate in 2007, he was appointed to committees on Sports, Privatization, Housing, Health and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.

In a mid-term evaluation of Senators in May 2009, ThisDay said he did not sponsor any bills in the last year, but sponsored and co-sponsored seven motions. His interventions were always apposite. 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.

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