Suicide: YPP Vice Presidential Candidate Urges NASS On Mental Health Reforms

Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Ms Patience Key, has called on the National Assembly to prioritise compassionate mental health reforms, economic relief, and public-interest policy delivery.
Key, who is running alongside YPP Presidential Candidate, Dr Peter Agada, said in Abuja that she urged the Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, to recognise that protecting Nigerians involves addressing the socio-economic conditions pushing citizens into distress, rather than criminalising attempted suicide.
She disagreed with Akpabio’s position during recent legislative debates that attempted suicide should remain a criminal offence under Nigerian law.
She ...