That is a rate of 1,324 persons per year in needless killings by security agents. Callously, it seems the political and security leadership in Nigeria think nothing of the high rate of killings by state actors. In Nigeria, security agents compete with bloodthirsty non-state actors like Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists, bandits, and Fulani herdsmen in massacring Nigerians. Despite the global uproar over the killings that followed the #EndSARS protests of 2020, Washington DC-based NGO, Global Rights, tallied 164 extrajudicial killings between January and September 2021. For instance, the governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, should lead protests against the high rate of killings by Customs officers in Ogun.

Source: Punch December 14, 2021 13:00 UTC