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A report published by the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), has assessed Nigeria among the worst countries in the world in violations and protection of human rights, producing the country with trivial 3.2 out of 10 in its safety from the State Index.
In the Metrix rights report published on its X platform on Saturday, the Global Human Rights Group said Nigeria was bad when he failed to fulfill its basic human rights obligations, also ranked the country among the worst in the world for civil freedom, protection from state harassment, and access to citizens to life services such as water, food, and housing.
Safety from the State Index, according to HRMI, is a category that assesses the right to be free from arbitrary arrests, forced loss, execution outside the law, death penalty, and torture or bad treatment and according to the body, Nigeria’s score shows that many people are not safe from one or more of the violation.
Providing a certain field of assessment, the report records arbitrary arrests that are said to print the worst, with a ranking of 2.5 out of 10, revealed that the score fell to the “very bad” or “bad” range according to HRMI standards.
It is said that from the data collected globally, Nigeria under the administration of the Tinubu Bola President, is ranked near the lower part for the protection of state violence with countries such as Mexico and Venezuela, while also performing poorly compared to other African countries, only fate better than Kenya and Mozambik.
“Supporting human rights, people who protest or are involved in political activities without violence, indigenous peoples, and advocates of workers’ rights” are identified very vulnerable to violations, “HRMI reports.
Speaking in the report, Nkosi Sibanda, the main actor of East HRMI and South Africa, said:
“This is the first time we have produced data on civil and political rights for Nigeria, and it is clear that the government in Abuja has a long way to protect the basic rights of its people.
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“HRMI empowerment scores, which measure rights such as freedom of speech, association, peace assembly, religion, and democratic participation, also describe a disturbing picture.
“Nigeria only scored 4.5 of 10. Apart from religious freedom and belief, which is included in the category of” fair “HRMI, all indicators of empowerment are all considered” bad. “
“This score reflects the lack of progress made,” Sibanda said.
Also commented on a bleak report on the country, the Nigerian HRMI Ambassador and Executive Director of the Nigerian Human Rights Network, Kadinde Adegboyega, said: “The quality of HRMI in the HRMI range. Nigeria Kisaran.
“Compared to other sub-Sahara African countries, Nigeria performs below average in almost all categories. This report highlights a surprising gap in the country’s housing and water infrastructure.
“Seeing data for housing rights, the findings are bleak. The score for access to water is only 38.25 percent, while access to sanitation gets a slightly higher score at 46.6 percent – both low critical levels that fail to meet international human rights standards.
“In many parts of Nigeria, especially in city centers, rental costs have skyrocketed, in some cases an increase of more than 100 percent.
“Meanwhile, wages remain stagnant, creating a severe affordability crisis. This growing difference has an in -depth impact on the quality of life, because many individuals and families are forced to spend their savings just to cover rent.
“Some must move to smaller and less comfortable accommodation and even consider selling personal items to adjust to their reduced living space.
“The Nigerian government must surpass rhetoric and take meaningful and continuous actions to overcome the housing crisis. Ensuring access to affordable housing is not just an economic policy problem, it is a basic human rights and important components of national development.”
