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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that the FCT and Lagos State reported a total of 58,566 crime cases in 2016.
The NBS stated this in a Crime Statistics posted on the bureau’s website on Tuesday in Abuja.
According to the bureau, the FCT and Lagos State reported the highest crime cases while Katsina and Abia states had the lowest percentage share of total cases reported in 2016.
The bureau said that the FCT reported 13,181 crime cases while Lagos State reported 45, 385 crime cases.
The cases were in categories as offence against persons, offence against property, offence against lawful authority and offence against local Acts. A breakdown of crime cases showed that FCT reported 2,984 cases of offence against persons, 9,350 cases against property, 843 cases against lawful authority and only four cases against local Acts.
The report said offence against persons are those offences against human beings such as murder, manslaughter, infanticide, concealment of birth, rape and other physical abuses.
Offences against properties were those offences against human belongings or properties of any kind like stealing, receiving stolen property, obtaining property by false pretence, robbery, burglary and house breaking.
Offences against lawful authority covers any offence committed against any establishment of the law such as failure to pay tax to the appropriate authority.
It explained that Local Acts are those laws that we cannot enforce outside Nigeria, like Liquor Act or Firearms Act.
Meanwhile, the bureau said that Lagos State reported 15, 426 cases of offence against persons; 22,885 cases of offence against property; 6, 768 cases of offence against lawful authority and 306 cases of offence against local Acts.
The bureau further stated that a total of 125,790 cases were reported from the 36 states in 2016. It stated that offence against property had the highest number of cases reported with 65,397 of such cases.
The bureau stated that offence against persons recorded 45,554 cases were reported while offence against lawful authority and local Acts recorded the least with 12,144 and 2,695 cases respectively.
It added that Lagos State had the highest percentage share of total cases reported with 36.08 per cent representing 45,385 cases recorded.
The bureau stated that FCT Abuja and Delta State followed closely with 10.48 per cent representing13,181 cases and 6.25 per cent representing 7,867 cases respectively.
It stated that Katsina State had the lowest percentage share of total cases reported with 0.10 per cent representing 120 recorded cases.
The bureau stated that Abia and Zamfara followed closely with 0.29 per cent representing 364 cases and 0.38 per cent representing 483 cases recorded respectively.
