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By Kennedy Nnamani
BASED on the analysis contained in the report from the InterSociety group, “estimated 4800 unarmed citizens of Eastern Nigeria have been arrested or abducted by security forces in the past 14 months (since late October 2020).
Of the number, 660 were traceably killed in security custodies, about 500 were killed in open shootings mainly carried out by soldiers of the Nigerian Army and personnel of other branches of the Armed Forces-with a clear case in point being dumping of over 100 dead victims of Army’s open shooting of civilians at the Owerri Federal Medical Center.”
The report further said that “not less than 1000 mainly abducted civilians have disappeared or presumed dead mainly in military custodies. No fewer than 2000 unarmed civilians are still detained without trial and only 700 of the arrested 4800 citizens have regained their freedom in the past 14 months.
The freed 700 citizens included 418 Obigbo abductees and some 300 other civilians arrested by security forces in the East since January 2021. Most of them got freed after being forced to offer an average of N1 million for each detainee. This was majorly the case in the hands of the Nigeria Police Force, especially its “IRT”, “STS”, “CTU”, ”Anti Kidnapping”, “SWAT/SARS” and “the Special Forces” comprising the operatives of the Army, Police, DSS, Navy, Air Force, NSCDC, etc.”
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