Former presidential candidate, Dr. Gbenga Hashim, has expressed concern over what he described as global silence on renewed waves of attacks and killings across parts of Nigeria, warning that the situation reflects a worsening and persistent security collapse.
Hashim, an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience (1989), said in a statement made available to journalists in Kaduna on Sunday that repeated attacks in Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State, as well as incidents in the North Central region and other parts of the country, continue to expose the scale of insecurity.

He lamented that many of the killings were either underreported or increasingly normalised, describing the situation as evidence of what he called “global indifference” to Nigeria’s security crisis.
According to him, recent attacks in Shanga LGA reportedly left over 40 people dead, with houses burnt and local sources suggesting the toll may rise as more bodies are recovered.
He added that similar attacks in previous weeks claimed several lives, noting that affected communities have continued to suffer repeated assaults without adequate security intervention.

Hashim said comparable incidents in Kwara State—particularly in Kaiama, Baruten, and Ifelodun LGAs—have resulted in between 20 and 50 deaths in recent weeks, including forest guards, adding that many of the incidents receive little attention beyond local reports.
Across the North Central region, he said the situation remains alarming.
“In Benue State, repeated attacks have reportedly killed between 50 and over 100 people within weeks. In Plateau State, coordinated night raids have left between 30 and 80 dead, while Niger State has recorded 20 to 50 fatalities, and Nasarawa State has suffered 10 to 20 deaths from spillover violence,” he said.
He noted that, taken together, these figures suggest that between 130 and 300 people may have been killed within a few weeks across the region.

Such levels of mass casualties, he said, are being met with “selective attention and dangerous silence.”
The former presidential candidate and 2009 recipient of the Lord Max Berhof Prize for Global Affairs warned that the widening gap between reality and global awareness is becoming increasingly troubling.
He argued that mass killings in rural Nigeria are being treated as routine statistics rather than urgent humanitarian crises.

Hashim also highlighted the continued operations of armed groups such as Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), alongside expanding bandit networks exploiting weak security presence, difficult terrain, and delayed response systems.
At the national level, he said the recurring attacks across multiple states point to a structural failure of security coordination rather than isolated incidents.
He also criticised what he described as the muted response of global institutions, including the United Nations and African Union, which he said have remained largely silent relative to the scale of violence.

According to him, “apart from U.S. President Donald Trump, who has shown consistent concern, most countries have accepted the dehumanisation of Nigerian lives despite Nigeria’s contributions to global peacekeeping efforts.”
He further expressed concern over what he described as the silence of African countries that have benefited from Nigeria’s past support and goodwill.
Hashim said there is a growing perception that Nigerian lives have been devalued in global consciousness, such that even routine expressions of condolence are becoming rare.

He posed several questions, asking why the world appears desensitised to mass killings in Nigeria, why Nigerian deaths no longer trigger sustained global outrage, and how many more lives must be lost before silence is seen as complicity.
“These questions are no longer rhetorical but reflect a global system increasingly selective in its moral attention,” he said.
For many observers, he added, the issue is no longer only insecurity but also the collapse of global response mechanisms in the face of repeated human loss.

Hashim warned that the current trajectory risks normalising mass death, where tragedy becomes routine and urgency disappears.
He lamented that, for now, the reality remains unchanged: the killings continue, the numbers rise, and too many victims remain unseen and uncounted.