Nigeria remains 3rd most terrorised nation in the world - Analyst
- A security analyst, Chuef Edinen Usoroh, says Nigeria currently ranks third on the world’s terrorism index
- Usoroh said Boko Haram remains the most active and deadliest terrorist group in Nigeria, and also a terror group in sub-Saharan Africa
- The security expert added that the inability of Nigerian security agencies to completely tackle the Boko Haram menace was due to ‘insider threat’
- Usoroh further said that apart from terrorism, other security challenges bedeviling the country include; banditry, kidnapping, rape, suicide deaths, ritual killings, missing persons and cyber fraud
Chief Edinen Usoroh, chairman, Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria (ALPSPN), Plateau chapter, says Nigeria currently ranks third on the world’s terrorism index.
Usoroh made the disclosure on Thursday, September 19 in Jos at the opening of a one-day counter-terrorism awareness seminar, NAN reports.
Legit.ng gathers that he said that Nigeria’s position was according to the 2018 global terrorism index.
“Nigeria remains the 3rd most terrorised nation in the world, according to the global terrorism index report of 2018.
“The five most terrorised countries in the world are: Iran, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Syria and Pakistan.
“Boko Haram remains the most active and deadliest terrorist group in Nigeria, and also a terror group in sub-Saharan Africa,” he said.
Usoroh, who is also the managing director, Executive Guards Ltd., stated that the inability of Nigerian security agencies to completely tackle the Boko Haram menace was due to ‘insider threat’.
According to him, the insider threat has jeopardised military operations, adding that such had compromised the integrity of the Nigerian military.
“The moment a terrorist establishes a functional contact with an insider, that organisation becomes extremely vulnerable to an attack,” he said.
The expert further said that apart from terrorism, other security challenges bedeviling the country include; banditry, kidnapping, rape, suicide deaths, ritual killings, missing persons and cyber fraud.
Usoroh stressed said that the counter-terrorism awareness seminar was organised to enlighten the security agencies, civil society organisations, religious leaders, community leaders and journalists among others, on the tactics of terrorists and criminals in the society.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, September 14, in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, urged ECOWAS leaders not to allow terrorist groups destabilise the region.
The president’s special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement in Abuja, said the Nigerian leader made the call at the Extraordinary Summit of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government on Counter-Terrorism in Ouagadougou.
The president, who joined other ECOWAS leaders for the special one-day summit, which was also attended by the leaders of Chad and Mauritania, decried that terrorism had become a major security threat across the globe.
He warned that the activities of terrorist groups constituted a grave danger to peace and security in West Africa, the wider Sahel and the global community.
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