Nigeria’s missing: Families in the northeast still wait for answers
Summary
Families in northeastern Nigeria continue to search for relatives who disappeared during years of conflict involving Boko Haram. Relatives described searches that have brought no confirmation of whether their missing family members are alive or dead.Key Facts
- Falmata Mohammed disappeared in 2011 while travelling with her mother from Maiduguri to Port Harcourt; her brother said unidentified gunmen abducted them.
- Kashim Mohammed said a man later claimed Falmata had been found in Benin, but he could not verify the claim or locate the man.
- Adam Muhammad Bashir, known as Bakura, went missing around 2012 or 2013, according to his younger brother, Muhammad.
- Muhammad said his family took Bakura’s photographs to a rehabilitation centre in Bulumkutu but no one recognised him.
- The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Nigerian Red Cross Society have supported efforts to trace missing people and reconnect separated families.
- Advocates cited an estimate of 17,000 people missing across northern Nigeria, while Kashim said his association’s records showed about 10,000 missing in Borno State.
- The article says the estimates’ sources, geographic coverage, reporting periods and compilation methods have not been independently established.
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