A psychology lecturer, Emmanuel Nii Boye Quarshie, and others plan to petition Parliament to decriminalize suicide.

In an interview with Citi News, Emmanuel Nii Boye Quarshie said the petition was informed by eight years of research as he noted that Ghana instead needed suicide prevention policies.

“We want the government to repeal the law, take it out, and rather put in intervention policies and suicide prevention policies,” Mr. Quarshie stated.

“We got this law from the British, and they repealed theirs in 1961 and since then, they have not completely eliminated suicidal behavior, but the rates are tolerably low. It is not just with the British, but other countries who have repealed that law have seen downward trends in terms of prevalence.”