Foundation Urges 34 States To Domesticate Gunshot Victims Law

Crime Victims Foundation of Nigeria (CRIVIFON) has called on the 34 states which have yet to domesticate the Treatment of Gunshot Victims Act 2018 to do so immediately to mitigate the adverse effect of criminality on innocent Nigerians.

While commending Rivers and Lagos state governments for their recent domestication of the law, CRIVIFON noted that if the other states toe the same path the move would greatly reduce encumbrances in the treatment of gunshot and accident victims by both public and private hospitals.

The organisation made the call through its executive director, Mrs Gloria Egbuji at a press conference held in Lagos yesterday.

Egbuji, who is also a lawyer, pointed out that despite the law on the compulsory treatment of gunshot and accident victims without submitting to the police report a condition before treatment, some Nigerian hospitals have continued to demand police reports thereby putting the lives of such victims at risk.