UN urges Nigeria to take actions to curb violence
on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings, Agnes Callamard, on Monday highlighted the need for the Nigerian authorities to take urgent actions to end violence.
The country has been rocked with deaths of its citizens in recent months mainly through rising crime, communal clashes and insurgency. She disclosed her current findings based on her investigation of arbitrary killings in Nigeria “are not too different from that of her predecessor, Philip Alston who wrote his in 2006.”
She cited the killings of a Deputy Police Commissioner and a journalist during one of the IMN processions that took place in July in Abuja.She said although there is an assumption the IMN could have been responsible for their deaths, “this assumption did not meet international investigation standards”.
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