By Rita Elenwo
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says at least 35,000 people have been killed since the inception of the insurgency in the North-East in 2009 to August 2023
This was disclosed by the UNHCR’s head of the Adamawa office, Elsie Mills-Tetty at a training for military personnel on human rights, humanitarian principles and civilian protection in Yola on Wednesday. The training was organized by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in collaboration with UNHCR.
Mills-Tetty, represented by Umar Abdullahi, assistant project officer, says this figure was according to the “Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect” report of August 2023.
For her, the implication of these acts to the economic and social development of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Nigeria at large can never be overemphasized.
She added that in 2022, the NHRC reported investigating human rights complaints and assisting victims in seeking redress and Adamawa had 65,456 complaints, approximately three per cent of the total complaints from the 36 states.
“The 2022 NHRC report also indicated that incidences of Insurgency, banditry, kidnappings, farmers/herders clashes and attacks by gunmen continued to increase with the attendant number of internally displaced persons who face enormous human rights violations.”
She called on the participants to take advantage of the training to boost their knowledge of human rights in their duties.
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