A presidential hopeful, Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has said a fresh wave of mass killings across Nigeria, many of them underreported, have intensified accusations of global indifference.
He said repeated attacks in Shanga Local Government of Kebbi state and many spots in the North Central region and other parts of the country have continued to expose what appeared to be a widening and persistent security collapse.
In a statement issued by Olawepo-Hashim, he said the true scale of killings was being dangerously underreported and increasingly normalised.
He said, attacks in Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State in the past week reportedly left over 40 people dead and houses burnt ,with local sources indicating the toll may be higher than 40 as the number of dead rises every day.
“He said similar attacks a few weeks back claimed seven lives, while the community had faced persistent attacks from terrorists without any kind of security support from the government.
He described the incident as another in a growing list of mass killings in rural Nigeria that failed to sustain national and global attention.
Olawepo-Hashim stated that in Kwara State, coordinated attacks across Kaiama, Baruten, and Ifelodun have left 20 to 50 people dead in recent weeks, including five forest guards, noting that many of these incidents barely register beyond local reporting channels.
Across the wider North Central region, Olawepo-Hashim said the situation was escalating without meaningful international alarm.
He added that, in Benue State, repeated attacks have reportedly killed 50 to over 100 people within weeks. In Plateau State, coordinated night raids have left 30 to 80 dead, while Niger State has recorded 20 to 50 fatalities, and Nasarawa State has suffered 10 to 20 deaths from spillover violence.
Taken together, these reports, he said, suggested that between 130 and 300 people may have been killed within weeks across a single region, a scale of mass casualty that Hashim says is being met with “selective attention and dangerous silence.”
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