Nigeria: Murtala Muhammed's Family Urges National Assembly to Enact Victims' Rights Laws

14 August 2018

Family of the late former Head of State, Gen. Murtala Muhammad (rtd) has called on the National Assembly to enact the Victims' Rights Laws, which would protect the rights of victims assassinated in heinous crime.

Making the call yesterday 25 years after the assassination of the eldest son of the former Head of State, Zackari, who was murdered at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja in 1993, elder sister of the deceased, Mrs. Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, during a prayer organised to mark his remembrance said: "The way at which the case of Zackari's murder ended was shrouded in confusion and indicated obvious injustice."

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