The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 Election, Peter Obi, has described as worrisome the recent killings in the country, particularly in North-Central and South-East regions, urging the government to increase its security architecture and show more concern for human life.
Obi said this in a series of tweets on his Twitter account on Thursday, July 13, 2023.
According to him, the 1st Quarter Mass Atrocities Casualty Tracking Report shows that over 1230 Nigerians were killed, 79 of them security operatives with over 600 abductions in the first quarter of this year alone.
The former governor of Anambra State said: “The violent attacks in the North-Central states of Benue and Plateau lately took a new twist with high records of kidnapping, arson, and loss of human lives.
With what has been happening in the North-Central and Zamfara State lately, the figure as of today will be mind-boggling even far more than the deaths recorded in Russia/Ukraine ongoing carnage.”
The LP standard bearer described the situation as “unacceptable that hundreds of innocent lives will continue to be wasted in Nigeria needlessly through communal clashes, bandit and kidnapping activities.
“The situation in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State has raised a lot of anxiety because of the number of lives and properties lost with very little resistance from security operatives.”
