Executive Director, SERAP, Adetokunbo Mumuni
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to urgently invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter, warning that Nigeria’s worsening insecurity now poses a threat to international peace and security.
In a statement issued on Sunday via its official social media page and an open letter dated May 30, 2026, SERAP said the UN must bring Nigeria’s security crisis—marked by mass abductions, killings and displacement—to the attention of the Security Council without delay.
The organisation said, “Nigeria’s escalating insecurity and grave human rights violations are reflected in repeated abductions, killings, attacks on civilians, and mass displacement in Oyo, Benue, Borno, Plateau, Kaduna, Zamfara, and several other parts of the country.”
It added that the scale of the crisis had gone beyond domestic concern, arguing that “the scale, persistence, and regional implications of the insecurity and grave human rights crisis in Nigeria pose a threat to international peace and security.”
