The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on Thursday, condemned the killing of a pregnant woman, Harira Jubril, and her four children in Anambra State.
They were killed by gunmen suspected to be members of the Eastern Security Network, an armed separatist group blamed for most of the fatal violence in Nigeria’s South-east.
The Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, reacted to the killing in a Wednesday press statement, saying, “it is the worst form of criminality and human rights violation.”
Mr Ojukwu said Nigeria has been plagued by terrible reports of murders, kidnappings, armed banditry, and rape, among other crimes.
These abuses, he said, “happen on a daily basis as if the culprits no longer had a human conscience or feelings.”
He called the killings a ‘gross violation’ of people’s rights to life and dignity, which are guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and…
