The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has revealed that a total of 106, 604 reported human rights abuses were recorded in the month of June alone.
This is a drastic increase form the 55,218 complaints received by the commission, in the month of May.
The rights abuses in the month of June comprises of 1,667 children abandonment, killing of 19 security personnel, 148 kidnappings and 240 cases of killings in all states.
The Executive Secretary of the commission Tony Ojukwu, SAN, who made this public at the 6th edition of the monthly human rights dashboard of the Commission noted that the increase was disturbing but not unexpected in view of the situation in the country.
He however called on the state governors to rise to the protection of the fundamental rights of the citizens in their States adding that, the cholera outbreak affected by some part of the country has recorded about 60 deaths already.
Ojukwu also noted with regret the increase in the extra-judicial killings in the country where he said Ebonyi and the Federal Capital Territory topped the list during the period.
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Giving the breakdown of the reported 106, 604 human rights abuses, the Senior Human Rights Adviser to the NHRC Executive Secretary, Hillary Ogbonna explained that North Central leads with 29,462 complaints, followed by the South-South with 21,600, and while the South East has 9,164.
Ogbonna also noted that the South West recorded 18, 458, North West recorded 15, 101, North East, 12, 907
While stating that in the month of June, about 58 cases of rape were recorded, he mentioned that cases of Domestic violence were 2, 436 and on Sexual assault, 600 cases were recorded.
Ogbonna also mentioned that Mob actions and Jungle Justice were recorded in Bauchi, Ondo, and Ogun States.
He further noted that the states with most killings in the month of June were Benue, Kaduna, Borno,Katsina which alone had 87 individuals killed, Niger which had 50 kidnapped persons.
The human rights experts are concerned with the high level of violation of the fundamental rights of women and children in the country, with Ojukwu noting that the Commission is partnering with stakeholders to provide shelter for the abandoned children while efforts are made to discover the parents of the children.
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
