Gunshot victims to be treated without police report as Buhari signs bill into law

Medical personnel are now free to treat victims of gunshot without waiting for police report and it is official.

A bill giving effect to the policy was signed into law yesterday by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Entitled Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017,it was among the six   so signed by the President.


Mr. Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), told  State House correspondents in Abuja that  the Gunshot Act specifically stipulates that a person with gunshot shall be received for immediate and adequate treatment by any hospital in Nigeria with or without initial monetary deposit.

He explained that

“furthermore, a person with gunshot wound shall not be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment or torture by any person or authority, including the police and other security agencies.”

The presidential aide revealed that the president also signed the Anti-Torture Act 2017 into law.