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  • Updated: September 14, 2020

Biafra: IPOB's Lawyer Reacts To Report By Global Terrorism Index Which Ranked Nigeria Third Most-Impacted Country In The World

Biafra: IPOB's Lawyer Reacts To Report By Global Terrorism I

A lawyer to the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has resorted to prayers for God's intervention amid the not-too-long report by the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), ranking Nigeria the third terrorism most-impacted country in the world, AllNews reports.

According to the report, only Afghanistan and Iraq, which ranked first and second, respectively, were ahead of Nigeria as countries that suffered most from terrorism. The report entitled, ‘Global Terrorism Index 2019,’ is used to measure the impact of terrorism across the world.

Ejiofor via his known Twitter handle on Monday enjoined his cohorts to "stay safe".

The GTI is produced every year by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a non-profit think tank with offices in Sydney, New York, and Mexico City.  Although Nigeria was ranked fourth in the global terrorism index in 2014, it has since 2015 retained the third position among countries worst-hit by terrorism.

Details of the report showed that Nigeria remained the most terrorised country in Africa with huge economic and financial losses. The report also revealed that deaths from terrorism in Nigeria rose to 2, 040 in 2018. According to the report, terror-related incidents increased 37 per cent, from 411 in 2017 to 562 in 2018 due to the activities of extremist herders and Boko Haram.

“Violence between Nigerian herders and farmers intensified in early 2018 with approximately 300,000 people fleeing their homes,” the report further stated.

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Also, sub-Saharan Africa recorded the highest number of deaths from terrorism.

Boko Haram, which ranked as the fourth deadliest terrorist group in 2018, still remains the deadliest in sub-Saharan Africa. The report equally revealed that “since its rise in 2009, Boko Haram had been responsible for thousands of deaths throughout the Lake Chad Basin region of West Africa.” In Nigeria, the Boko Haram insurgency led to 35,000 combat-related deaths and 18,000 deaths from terrorism since 2011.

Although the report observed that the Multinational Joint Task Forces (MNJTF), which operates alongside Nigerian military, had reclaimed some territory from the insurgents and weakened the Boko Haram in 2015 and 2916, the sect was responsible for 615 combat-related deaths in the first eight months of 2019.

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