The House of Representatives has condemned the spate of extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses especially by security operatives in the enforcement of the lockdown ordered by the President, Ma
jor General Muhammadu Buhari , and governors.
Also, the House mandated committees with oversight over the security agencies implicated, including the House Committee on Human Rights, to investigate the abuses and killings. The lawmaker partly said, “The House regrets that within the initial period of the lockdown, security operatives had, according to the National Human Rights Commission, extrajudicially killed 18 innocent Nigerians in Abia, Delta, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Katsina, and Niger states. The House further regrets that as of April 13, 2020, when the lockdown was extended for another two weeks, that figure was more than the total number of Nigerians killed by the virus.
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