Forner presidential aspirant Gbenga Olawepo- Hashim has warned that mass killings in Nigeria are coming in far below the radar of the world, a trend that screams that Nigerian lives have been marked down.
Oluwepo-Hashim, a founding People Democratic Party member, sa the relentless attacks in parts of the country show a security sinkhole that neither the home front nor the international club cares to keep in view.
In a statement given to PUNCH Online, he and said the real death numbers are being “dangerously underreported and increasingly treated as normal.”
He gave the example ofShanga Local Government in Kebbi, where more than 40 residents were hacked or burned to death in the past week alone.
Locals, he said, expect the figure to climb because bodies keep turning up and many houses have been levelled.
He also noted the same town lost seven people to another attack, yet the headlines refused to stick.
“What we are watching is a run of mass murder that can’t hold national anger or even a global shrug for more than a day,” he said.
He flagged similar, spilt across three council areas n Kwara, Kaiama, Baruten and Ifel: within the last few weeks the tally swings between 20 and 50 dead. Among them, five forest guards died in near-anonymity.
In North-C Central, he painted a bleak table: Benue, 50–100 dead within weeks; Plateau, three- nights of coordinated strikes, 30–80 dead; Niger, another 20–50; Nasarawa, 10–20.
Add them up, he said, and 130–300 villagers were wiped out over a fleeting times.
The silence, he warned, is selective and lethal.
“No call from the United Nations, no whisper from the African Union,” he said.
“The world’s default setting nowis that Nigerian lives are cheap and not even worth a statement of sympathy.”
