According to the group, “from our findings the killings were traced to both lawful and unlawful armed malicious elements within and outside the country’s security forces, including the police, JTF, Multi-national Joint Task Force, militant ethno-religious zealots and other criminal elements such as politicians and the Niger Delta militants. “The citizen victims of these killings include serving members of the Nigerian security forces, militant elements within Boko Haram and the Ansaru Islamist movements, civil politics practitioners, crime suspects and innocent detainees who were non-violently taken into police custodies but later killed extra-judicially.
The over 1,000 murder casualty figures will be grossly under-calculated if the unreported cases arising from vigilante killings across the country, police pre-trial killings, secret killings by armed Islamic ethnic groups operating in the North-Central, North-East and North-West zones of Nigeria, as well as killings arising from armed robbery, kidnapping, rituals, civil homicides and road accidents. If attempts are made to capture all these, then it most likely may be correct to estimate the figure in the neighborhood of over 4,000 murders since January 2013,” the group said. Intersociety said the figures of over 1,000 citizen deaths since January were arrived at from de-classified Nigerian security forces’ sources and open sources such as on-the-spot findings, eye-witnesses accounts and media reports.
It lamented that over 300 Nigerian citizens were killed in road accidents within the period under review, while 95% of those killed were the Igbo. Umeagbalasi regretted that Nigeria has become a theatre of death due to what he described as the weakness of government, which has continued to embolden malicious killer elements and encourage militancy in the country. The solution, the group proffered, lies in a strong political will, including being open to constructive criticism and acceptance of noble ideas required of Nigerian political authorities.
The group called for intelligence and preventive policing as well as effective technologically advanced criminal investigation and litigation management.
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