A civil society organisation, the National Working Group on Armed Violence, has released a report which indicates that “Enugu has the highest incidence of crime in the country.”
The report released on Thursday in Abuja entitled, ‘The violent road: An overview of Armed Violence in Nigeria’, lamented that armed violence had damaged the economic and social wellbeing of Nigerians.
Presented by the chairperson of the group, Mimidoo Achakpa, the report reviewed impacts of armed violence on Nigeria with focus on 18 states in the six geopolitical zones and the Federal Capital Territory.
It stated that the North Central region had some of the highest national levels of violence with communal militias being involved in over 40 percent of political violence and over 73 percent of conflict related fatalities.
The NWGAV blamed porous borders within the North East zone for the influx of weapons from different countries.
The report revealed that “the South South’s conflict was inextricably linked to oil exploration; that armed violence in the South West largely manifests in the form of political violence; that across the nation there are frequent and often under-reported clashes between nomads and indigenes.”
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