Right to Life under the 1999 Constitution and the State of Road Infrastructure in Nigeria: A Revisit
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2021
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Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence
Abstract
In this paper, the right to life is discussed in its all-inclusive context through the
inclusion of the right to good road infrastructure as a significant component of
the right. It argues that the right to life should not be restricted to deprivation of
life, but be extended to sustenance of life. Accordingly, it argues that poor road
infrastructure is a violation of the right to life, the breach of which should not be
narrowly interpreted as deprivation of life but also, the neglect of road
infrastructure occasioning millions of avoidable deaths. The right to life, it
argues, should be broadly interpreted to encompass all its components, some of
which are contained in the non justiciable provisions ofthe 1999 Constitution of
Nigeria(as amended),Itconcluded by arguing that the combination of the
provisions which the Constitution declares as non justiciable with the right to
life, make suchprovisions tobecome justiciable without affecting their otherwise
non justiciable status since they are not enforced on their own but on the basis of
the justiciable right to life. It recommended what needed to be done concerning
the state of road infrastructure in Nigeria so that the right to life can be,indeed,
guaranteed.
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Road infrastructure, Right to life, 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN)., Death