The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, said on Wednesday at least 23,000 people had been reported missing due to the insurgency in some parts of Nigeria in the last 10 years.
Edu, who disclosed this at a stakeholders’ engagement to mark the International Day of the Disappeared held in Abuja, said the figure represented half the number of missing people in the whole of Africa.
She said the report of the missing people released by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) was a result of the insurgency in the Northern part of the country.
