Also, the organisation queried claim in the NBS report that 51.89 million crimes were reported in a single year. "This figure represents almost one-fourth of Nigeria’s population and would require every police station, of which there are fewer than 6,000 nationwide, to process an average of 142,000 crime reports daily," PeacePro said of why the claim by NBS is hard to believe.
It also noted that police records, the primary source of crime statistics, do not reflect such high numbers.
On the claims that 615,000 deaths were reported in a year due to crime-related activities, PeacePro said this would amount to 1,680 deaths per day.