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Police officers at Lekki tollgate ahead of Saturday’s protests

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497 Nigerian policemen killed in six years – Report

At least, 1,175 civilians were also killed in different attacks in the country.

bySamson Adenekan
March 29, 2021
2 min read

No fewer than 497 police officers were killed in different attacks across Nigeria in the last six years, a report has said.

It also said at least, 1,175 civilians were also killed in different attacks in the country.

The report by SBMorgen, a Lagos-based intelligence platform, covered the period between January 7, 2015 and March 22, 2021, about 75 months.

According to the report, sent to PREMIUM TIMES, the 497 police officers and men were killed in 554 incidents across the country during the period.

The group, which based its data on reported incidents, said its findings were corroborated by at least two different media sources across the six geopolitical zones in the country.

The figures arguably underscored the extension of the mind boggling cases of insecurity in Nigeria in recent years.

Zonal analysis

SBMorgen said, of all the six geopolitical zones in the country, the South-south region tops the chart with 163 incidents that sent 174 policemen to their early graves during the years under review.

It said 51 policemen were killed in Delta State alone within the period, making the state the highest among the six states in the region.

Akwa Ibom State recorded 11 deaths within the 75 months.

The North-central zone trailed the South-south zone having recorded 85 deaths of police officers out of the 88 reported attack incidents in the zone.

In the geopolitical zone, Benue recorded the highest number with the killing of 22 police officers during the 16 reported incidents during the period under review. The state witnessed herders-farmers clashes during most of the 75 months.

It is followed closely by Kogi which recorded the deaths of 19 police personnel in 49 violent attacks.

Kwara State, the report said, recorded two deaths out of the three cases reported in the state.

As fairly ‘safe’ as the South-west seems, the region recorded 112 incidents, which led to the demise of 72 members of Nigerian police.

In the region, Lagos topped the chart with 47 attacks and 21 reported cases of death.

Ondo State recorded 11 deaths of police officers out of the 16 attack incidents. Ekiti recorded the least.

The report said the North-west and South-east respectively accounted for 59 and 58 deaths of police personnel in 64 and 82 incidents in the geopolitical zones.

The North-east region surprisingly recorded 45 attack incidents and 49 death cases. The zone, comprising Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe, Adamawa and Taraba, is one of the volatile regions in the country.

Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States have been the epicentre of the insurgency in the region.

State by state basis

One a state by state basis, the gathered data by SBMorgen, showed that Kebbi was the safest state for police officers while Zamfara, Delta, Edo, Kogi, Yobe, Benue, Borno, Adamawa, Rivers, Abia, Plateau and Cross Rivers are states “where more than one police officer was killed per attack.”

There were more reported killings of police officers across the six geopolitical zones between 2018-2020 than in 2015-2017.

Between January 1, 2021 to March 22, 2021, the report said 48 police officers were killed across the zones.

The South-eastern part of Nigeria accounted for 16 of those deaths while the South-south accounted for 20. They both accounted for more than 60 per cent of the total figure.

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Commenting on the report, a data expert with SBMorgen, Joachim MacEbong, told PREMIUM TIMES that the firm arrived at the figures “after compiling reports from at least two newspapers over the years”.

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