Amnesty report indicts police, army, Ebube Agu, others over killings in south-east
Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian police, army, the regional security outfit Ebube Agu, and non-state actors of widespread human rights violations in the South-East, including unlawful killings, torture, and enforced disappearances.
In its latest report, A Decade of Impunity: Attack and Unlawful Killings in Southeast Nigeria, the rights group revealed that over 1,844 people were killed by state and non-state actors between January 2021 and June 2023. It also documented arbitrary arrests, displacement, and other abuses carried out by rampaging gunmen, state-backed paramilitary outfits, vigilantes, criminal gangs, and cults from January 2021 to December 2024.
The report further highlighted that gunmen killed more than 400 people in Imo State alone between 2019 and 2021. Amnesty International urged the Nigerian government to act swiftly to end the killings and hold perpetrators accountable.
