The Nigeria Security Tracker (NST) has released a report showing that no fewer than 275 people were killed and 285 others abducted by non-state actors in November across Nigeria.
The NST is a project of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) a nonprofit American think tank specialising in U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
According to the report, more people were killed in the north with 19 states and where Boko Haram terrorists are still active in the northeast; terrorists commonly referred to as bandits are wreaking havoc in the northwest, while the north central is home to communal and ethnic clashes and herdsmen murderous strikes.
Specifically, the NST survey showed that more people were killed in the north-central region than in other regions.
It stated that at least 109 people were killed within the period in that geo-political zone while the northwest which has seven states recorded the second-highest number of murders with 58 killed.
The survey reported that 35 people were killed in the northeast during the period in review.
In the south of the country, the highest incident of killing occurred in the southeast with 46 killings, 18 in the south-south and nine in the southwest.
For state-by-state analysis of killings during the month in focus, Benue led with 58 fatalities.
Other affected states were Kaduna with 32 casualties, Niger, 26; Plateau, 24; Enugu, 22; Zamfara, 21; Rivers, 15; and Anambra, 11.
Also, six persons were killed in Imo; Ebonyi, 5; Kebbi and Ogun states, 4 each; Delta, 3; Abia, Bauchi, Jigawa, Ondo and Oyo had two fatalities each; while Kano, Nasarawa and Osun recorded 4 killings each.
Breaking down the figures, out of the 275 killed, 244 of them were armless civilians, 17 soldiers — of which 16 were killed in gruesome attacks by some suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP); nine were police officers, three security guards and two members of vigilante groups.
Per zone-by-zone analysis of the collated data, 197 people were abducted in northwest, 47 in south-south, north-central, 32; southeast, 5; southwest, 3; and northeast, 1.
Per state-by-state analysis, 122 persons were abducted in Zamfara during the month under review.
Kaduna recorded 77, Edo and Niger, 20 apiece; Cross River, 17; Rivers, 10; Enugu, 4; Kwara, 3; Plateau, 3; Kebbi and Ondo, 2 each; while Bauchi, Benue, Imo, Nasarawa, and Ogun had one each.
With Premium Times and TheCable reports
