Nigeria Records 1,701,509 Right Violations Cases In the Past Year

The National Human Rights Commission said it received 1,701,519 complaints about rights violations in 2021 through avenues including the protection departments of its headquarters, and state office.

The figure, the human right commission said, was higher than the 1,287,280 complaints received in 2020 and the highest so far since its establishment in 1995.

This was disclosed in its statutory report presented at the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Lagos recently. The information was made available to newsmen by the NHRC Executive Secretary, Anthony Ojukwu, on Wednesday.

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In other news, the Lagos State government has also recorded over 4,000 cases of domestic violence case involving children and adults, in the last year.

Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Moyosore Onigbanjo stated this yesterday when he addressed a news conference to mark the 2022 domestic and sexual violence awareness month, celebrated every September.

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Of the 4,860 cases, 2,029 are domestic violence, 65 rape, 40 sexual assault, 10 attempted rape, five sexual assault by penetration, and 73 threat to life. Others were 113 child abuse and physical assault.

According to Onigbanjo, Alimosho local government area recorded the highest number of cases, followed by Ikorodu, Kosofe, Eti-Osa, Oshodi-Isolo and Ifako-Ijaiye.

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