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| Lagos Exco returns Coroner's Law to State Assembly for Review |
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     According to Governor Fashola who spoke at two different fora, the Friday Jumat Service at Central Mosque Alausa and the prayers to usher in Ramadan fasting at the New State House, Ikeja, over the weekend, nothing can come between the current administration and the electorate under whose mandate the government is in office. He added that the State house of Assembly would soon make public the modalities for receiving inputs from members of the public on the Coroner’s law which was first enacted in 1954 and has since undergone several amendments. The Governor explained that some people are trying to exploit the Coroner’s law to cause disaffection between the people and the government by emphasizing that the new law seeks to stop Muslims from interring their dead bodies as dictated by the religion. He added that since the enactment of the Coroner’s law several Muslim have died and have had no inquests conducted on them because such deaths were not shrouded in controversies or mysteries. Governor Fashola added that as a staunch Muslim, he would never do anything to disparage the practice of Islam insisting that only reportable deaths are affected by a Coroner’s inquest. He appealed to people in the state to refrain from using religion as a platform to air any form of grievances or disagreement which they may nurse against government policies. He explained that giving religious colouration to any disagreement is an ill wind which bears no good fruit and has even led to wars in some geographical locations. The Governor added that the Coroner’s law was enacted for the good and well being of the people and that ultimate sovereignty resides with the people for whom the law was enacted in the first place. He denounced the claim that relatives of dead people are being asked to pay for inquests into dead persons asking that they must not honour such requests which is illegal and added that the conduct of inquest into any reportable death has always been footed by the State Government. The Governor said three salient points informed the quest for tinkering with the Coroner’s law as the points were responsible for the Government’s decision to put the new law in place. He listed those who deaths may necessitate Coroner’s inquests to include people in need of protection like the mentally challenged and invalids who are classified as people under psychiatric detention, who could have been taken advantage of thus resulting into death. Another source of death which calls for investigation in order to help improve knowledge and scope of Medicare according to Governor Fashola is the need to determine those who died through cardio vascular disorders, organic disorders or sudden deaths. The third category listed by Governor Fashola is people who died due to negligence or the activities of quacks in the field of medicine who need to be held accountable for their misdeeds.  Quote this article on your site | Views: 209 | Print | E-mail
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