The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has hinted that it recorded a total of 106, 604 human rights abuse cases in the month of June alone.
The abuses, the Commission said, comprised 1,667 children abandonment and killing of 19 security personnel during the period.
The Executive Secretary, Dr Tony Ojukwu (SAN), who disclosed this on Monday during the 6th edition of the monthly human rights dashboard in Abuja, said that the figure of the human rights abuses within the month was the highest in the past six months.
Ojukwu added that the increase was alarming but not unexpected in view of the sociopolitical and economic circumstances in the country.
He, therefore, called on the state governors to advocate protection of the fundamental rights of the citizens in their states.
Ojukwu added that the Commission would collaborate with traditional rulers and Civil Society Organisations to raise the campaigns against human rights abuses.
He expressed regret at the increase in the extra-judicial killings in the country, noting that Ebonyi and the Federal Capital Territory FCT topped the list during the period.
While giving the breakdown of the reported 106, 604 human rights abuses, the Senior Human Rights Adviser to the NHRC Executive Secretary, Mr. Hillary Ogbonna, said the increase in rights abuses called for more action.
He added that the North Central still topped the table on the human rights abuses with a record of 29, 462, closely followed by South South with 21, 603.
He further explained that the South West recorded 18, 458, North West recorded 15, 101, North East, 12, 907, while South East recorded the lowest of 9, 164 reporter cases of human rights violation.
On the extra judicial killings, Ogbonna expressed worries that killing for blasphemy was recorded in Bauchi, another killed in Ondo State for infidelity and the stabbing of a wife’s lover to death in Ogun state, while the recorded ones in Edo are related to cultism.
He said that three different attacks were carried out on police stations with FCT recording one, while Ebonyi recorded two.
He appealed to Nigerians to stop attack on security operatives.
Ogbonna stressed that mob actions and jungle justice were against Nigerian laws and should be stopped.
On bomb-related matters, he said Borno topped the list with two twin bomb explosions at wedding ceremonies where some people were killed, while Kaduna, Benue, Katsina and Plateau also recorded some cases in terrorism-related killings in June.
