298 rights violation complaints received in Gombe: NHRC
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Gombe said it received at least 298 complaints of alleged human rights violations in 2023.
Its spokesman, Ali Alola-Alfinti, disclosed this in an interview in Gombe on Thursday.
He said the commission treated 280, while 18 complaints not within the commission’s mandate were referred to concerned agencies for proper treatment.
Giving a further breakdown, Alola-Alfinti said that 45 of the complaints, representing 15.1 per cent of the total reported cases, were on domestic violence, while complaints on paternal abandonment were 106, representing 35.6 per cent.
He added that 82 cases, representing 27.5 per cent of the total number of alleged human rights abuses complaints in 2023, were on inhuman treatment.
He said 23 cases were on rights to property, 15 on rights to economic development, nine threat to life and one rape case.
The spokesman said out of the 280 cases probed, over 270 had been resolved “amicably,” while the remaining were still being treated as received in December.
He explained that of all the human rights violations reported, domestic violence used to be the highest, but now paternal abandonment or refusal to take responsibility by fathers is the highest based on the analysis received.
(NAN)
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