Following the recent killings in Jos, Plateau State, Enough is Enough Nigeria has accused the Nigerian government of continued failure to protect citizens following a series of deadly attacks across the country
The organization lamented the killing of at least 28 people on March 29, 2026, when gunmen stormed the Angwan Rukuba community in Jos North Local Government Area.
The group, in a statement signed by Ufuoma Nnamdi-Udeh, Executive Director of EiE Nigeria, also noted that another 27 people were killed and 146 others injured in Maiduguri on March 16, in coordinated suicide bombings at a teaching hospital gate and two busy markets.
Similarly, in Kwara State, on February 3, armed attackers invaded the villages of Woro and Nuku, bound residents’ hands, and executed them, with at least 162 people dying, according to the Red Cross.
“That is over 200 Nigerians killed in less than two months. And the question that demands an answer from every level of government is this: Who is protecting Nigerian lives?” the statement read.
EiE Nigeria extended its deepest condolences to the families of every life lost and wished the injured a full and speedy recovery.
The organization noted that Section 14(2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution states that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of the government.
“By that constitutional standard, the Nigerian government is in default,” EiE said.
The statement emphasized that the attacks did not occur without warning, noting that Amnesty International confirmed armed groups had been sending written threats to the Woro community for more than five months before the massacre.
In Maiduguri, a city serving as headquarters of Nigeria’s counter-insurgency operations, three devices detonated simultaneously in crowded civilian spaces during Ramadan.
“This is not a crisis of isolated incidents. It is a crisis of governance, intelligence failures, inadequate civilian protection, and a security architecture that responds to mass death rather than preventing it,” the statement read.
Nnamdi-Udeh said the government’s response to mass violence has followed a predictable and insufficient pattern of presidential condemnation, announcement of deployments, promise of investigations and then silence until the next attack.
“Every time Nigerians are killed in this way, the government responds with condolences and the promise of an investigation. But investigations go nowhere, no one is held to account, and the attacks continue. At what point do we stop calling this a crisis and start calling it what this is – a complete government failure?” Nnamdi-Udeh said.
EiE expressed concern that the cycle of violence and inaction is eroding public trust in the state’s capacity and commitment to protect its citizens.
The organization noted that when communities send warning letters to authorities for five months and are still massacred, the failure is not incidental but systemic.
“Impunity is not a neutral outcome. It is an incentive,” the statement added.
EiE called on the President of the Federal Republic and relevant state governments to protect civilians, not just react to their deaths, noting that where communities have identified threats and communicated them to authorities, there must be a mandatory, documented response protocol.
The organization demanded that investigations be transparent, time-bound, and result in prosecution, calling on the Attorney General of the Federation and state Attorneys General to publish the status of every announced investigation into mass violence.
EiE also called for the National Security Adviser and service chiefs to account publicly for how armed groups were able to plan and execute attacks of this scale in Kwara after months of warnings, in Maiduguri at the heart of Nigeria’s counter-insurgency operations, and in Jos where patterns of violence are well established.
Other demands include review and reform of the national security strategy, and sustained security presence for affected communities rather than temporary deployments.
“A government’s legitimacy rests, in part, on its capacity to protect those it governs. Nigerians in Jos, in Maiduguri, in Kwara, and in every community living under the threat of violence are not statistics. They are citizens, and they are owed better than condolences and curfews,” the statement concluded.
EiE Nigeria said it will continue to monitor the government’s response and will hold public institutions accountable to their constitutional obligations.
The organization called on all Nigerians to demand accountability, stating that silence in the face of preventable death is not neutrality but complicity.