555 People Killed In Mob Violence In Nigeria In 11 Years–Amnesty Int’l

About  555 people have died across Nigeria’s six geo-political zones in 11 years due to mob violence.

Programmes  manager of Amnesty international, Barbara Magaji, disclosed this  while answering questions from LEADERSHIP in Calabar yesterday.

Magaji who gave the figure after a Campaign Walk against mob violence by members of Amnesty International in Calabar, stated that  victims of mob violence were either framed up or unjustly attacked because someone raised a false alarm against them in public places.

She said every year, out of the 11 years used for a study on mob violence, 55 people die on average as a result of mob violence.

“We spent two years documenting situations that happened across the country on mob violence for a period of 11 years, from 2012  to 2024,” she stated.

From the study we carried out, the sources mob violence as we saw include people being killed because of allegations of witchcraft, or someone saying someone had stolen something in a public place.

“We discovered that victims were sometimes wrongly stoned or burnt to death.

“All we are asking is that members of the public should not take laws into their hands. Once issues like this crop up, first report this to the police or other relevant agencies, the programme manager said.