A Civil Society Organisation, Nigerian Mental Health, has called on the country’s lawmakers to repeal laws that currently penalise citizens who try to take their lives with a one-year jail term.
This is as the CSO launched a policy brief on decriminalising attempted suicide in Nigeria to drive legislative and societal change, and transform suicide from “a criminal offence to a public health concern.”
The policy brief, which was launched in September, was in commemoration of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
