The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has clarified the public concerning the case of the Nigerian military conducting forced abortions on thousands of women in the northeast.
The findings of the investigation led by Abdu Aboki, a former Supreme Court justice, found no evidence that shows that the military forces women to carry out at least 10,000 abortions between 2013 and 2021.
While speaking during the presentation, secretary of the panel, Hilary Ogbonna, said, “For the abortion assault, the panel did not find evidence that the Nigerian Armed Forces committed systematic, secret or policy-driven abortions in the north-east to the tune of 10,000. There was no evidence before the panel to prove that.
“For smother and poison, the panel did not find the military culpable for the massacre of children, but the panel found the military culpable of infanticide and the killing of community members in a village in Marte LGA of Borno on the 16th of June 2016.
“We received witness testimonies of that of survivors – you will find all of these in the report.”