{"id":57943,"date":"2024-12-13T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57943"},"modified":"2024-12-13T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T17:45:12","slug":"lagos-enacts-law-against-organ-harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/13\/lagos-enacts-law-against-organ-harvesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Enacts Law Against Organ Harvesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the Human Organ and Tissue Transplantation Bill into law, targeting illegal organ harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro, SAN, announced this during a press briefing in Ikeja on December 13, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The law bans unauthorized organ harvesting, unethical medical practices, and advertisements promoting organ sales.<\/p>\n<p>Violators face penalties of up to 10 years imprisonment or \u20a610 million in fines.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation ensures ethical standards in medical procedures while protecting residents from exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro also highlighted four additional laws aimed at improving public welfare: the Consumer Protection Law, Lagos Enforcement Training Institute regulations, Victims Assistance and Witness Protection Law, and Fire and Rescue Service Law.<\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Protection Law empowers residents to hold businesses accountable, with penalties for violations reaching \u20a65 million or six months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro urged Lagosians to embrace and enforce these laws, emphasizing the government&#8217;s commitment to security, justice, and progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the Human Organ and Tissue Transplantation Bill into law, targeting illegal organ harvesting. Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro, SAN, announced this during a press briefing in Ikeja on December 13, 2024. The law bans unauthorized organ harvesting, unethical medical practices, and advertisements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57945,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57943\/revisions\/57945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}