Human Rights Association (HRA), has raised alarm over what it described as “the documented and worsening pattern of extrajudicial killings” by Nigerian security forces.
It therefore called on the Federal Government to hold all security personnel responsible and to dismantle the institutional conditions that enable impunity.
Chairman of HRA, Saad Kassis-Mohamed, who stated these while taking a critical look at the reoccurring development, specifically tasked the Government to stop managing individual incidents, but should commence the process of dismantling the institutional conditions that produce them.
Kassis-Mohamed noted that a review of documented cases has confirmed that the incidents were not exceptional.
He further said; “On 26 April 2026, Mene Ogidi, a 28-year-old delivery man, was restrained to the ground and shot at close range by Assistant Superintendent of Police Nuhu Usman in Effurun, Delta State. The killing was filmed.
“The day before, on 25 April 2026, Abdulsamad Jamiu, a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps, was shot and killed in his father’s compound in the Dei-Dei area of Abuja by personnel from the Guards Brigade Quick Response Force.
“The military described the incident as a crossfire. The officer subsequently admitted it was a mistake. Mr Jamiu’s family have rejected both accounts. Two killings. Two days. Two different arms of Nigeria’s security apparatus. Neither victim was a criminal. Neither posed a threat. Neither is alive.
“On 1 January 2026, Timothy Daniel, a 13-year-old boy, was shot in the head by a soldier in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State. “In Owerri, Imo State, the HRA has reviewed documented accounts of the Tiger Base police unit, which has been found to operate as a site of unlawful killing, torture, forced disappearances, and systematic extortion.
“Japhet Njoku, a security guard, was beaten to death in Tiger Base detention in May 2025. Officers have frustrated four court-ordered autopsy proceedings since then. Five years after EndSARS and the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, the HRA’s assessment of documented cases confirms that unlawful killing by police and military personnel continues without meaningful accountability,” he noted.
The Human Rights Association stressed that its position is unambiguous, emphasising that Nigeria has a constitution that guarantees the right to life.
The Association further said that Nigeria signed international treaties that require accountability for violations of that right, thus said that
