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‘Nigeria records highest number of missing persons in Africa’

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‘Nigeria data highest variety of lacking individuals in Africa’

Nigeria records highest number of missing persons in Africa

It’s been claimed Nigeria holds the document for highest variety of lacking individuals in Africa.

In line with the Government Director, CLEEN basis, Dr. Benson Olugbuo who quoted the Worldwide Committee Crimson Cross (ICRC), stating that throughout the final 10yrs, about 22,000 folks have been lacking from Nigeria alone, which is the best document in Africa up to now.

Talking Monday on the Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) headquarters in Abuja in commemoration of the 2021 Worldwide Day of the Disappeared, he stated the best case recorded was in 2014 when women from the Authorities Women School, Chibok often known as Chibok women had been kidnapped from their faculty by the Boko Haram insurgents.

He stated folks had all the time laid complaints about circumstances of kidnap, lacking individuals, and different circumstances of disappearance however little or no was achieved therefore the necessity to overview the legal guidelines of lacking individuals to get more practical.

Minister, Ministry of Girls Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen lamented that Nigeria had the best case of lacking individuals in Africa therefore, urged that the current administration had been on their toes to curb the state of affairs.

She famous that households of lacking individuals had been all the time traumatised, stressing that the legislation enforcement companies want each assist to make sure that insecurity and circumstances of disappearance had been eradicated.

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