The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has revealed that no fewer than 23,000 people had been reported missing due to the insurgency in some parts of Nigeria in the last 10 years.
Edu disclosed this at a stakeholders’ engagement to commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared in Abuja and said the figure represented half the number of missing people in the whole of Africa.
According to the Minister, the report of the missing people released by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) was a result of the insurgency in the Northern part of the country.
She said: “Today, over 23,000 persons are still missing.
“However, it is likely that this is just a tip of the iceberg as a more efficient mechanism is needed to improve the reporting and forensically trace cases of missing persons.”
She stated that the issue of missing people had become one of the most critical and long-lasting consequences of armed conflicts all over the world.
Edu reiterated that the present administration was committed to solving the problem, hence the need to empower the legal frameworks that would substantially tackle the incidences of disappearance.
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