The United Nations laments that over one thousand, four hundred people have been killed within six months by bandits and kidnappers in Nigeria.
Making the disclosure in Makurdi, capital of Benue state in Nigeria, the UN country director, Edward Kallon noted that killings by armed herdsmen and bandits outnumber killings by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria.
"Pockets of conflict and insecurity in the country at large especially, where I am today (Benue), the herders and farmers crisis and also kidnapping and banditry. This is now really getting out of hand. The last statistics I saw from government was that over 1,400 people were killed as a result of kidnapping and banditry since the elections."
"This is not a pleasant statistics" he regretted.
He blamed the security situation on weak institutions of government at the federal, state and local levels.
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