No fewer than 675 Nigerians were killed while there were 168 cases of abductions across the country in May.
A breakdown of the recorded fatalities showed that 38.7 per cent occurred in the North Central ; 23.9 per cent in the North-East ; 15.6 per cent in theNorth-West ; 7.1 per cent in the South-West ; 5.2 per cent in the South-East ; and 9.6 per cent in the South-South .
The document revealed that the top three states with the highest fatalities were Plateau with 126 fatalities; Borno with 123; and Benue with 51 fatalities. Furthermore, the report revealed that in May 68 cases of abduction took place in North-West; 20 in the South-South, six in the South-West and five in the South-East.
The Chief Executive Officer, Beacon Intel, and a security expert, Kabir Adamu, advised that “For government efforts to decrease the ability of non-state actors to challenge the supremacy of the use of force by the state to be sustainable, the Federal and State Governments need to strengthen collaboration for enhanced administration of criminal justice and the restoration of social order by addressing the root causes of these challenges including socio-economic grievances, unemployment and the...
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