more news at http://davesblog.over-blog.com. The 21st Century
Wilberforce Initiative
from the United
States and its
Nigerian counterpart,
the Stefanus Foundation, have
revealed that attacks by Boko Haram in the
north-eastern part of
Nigeria affected 13,000 churches,
1,500 schools and led
to the death of 611
teachers. On a larger scale, the two
organisations which spoke
in Abuja, according to a
report by Premium Times,
said more than 14 million
Nigerians were directly affected by the security
crisis in the area. A school in Chibok
reportedly destroyed by
Boko Haram The report quoted Mark
Lipdo, the executive
director of the Stefanus
Foundation, as saying:
“14.8 million Nigerians
from north-east are directly impacted by the
crisis. Officially, there are
2.2 million internally
displaced persons (IDPs). “Unofficially, there are
five to seven million IDPs.
Those in need of special
assistance, are 2.5 million,
comprising children under
the age of five, pregnant women and nursing
mothers.”According to him, 611
teachers died as a result
of terrorism in the north
east; 19,000 teachers
were displaced, 1500
schools were closed down, 950,000 children were
denied the opportunity of
accessing
education, 13,000
churches were abandoned,
closed down or destroyed, 2000 children were
abducted and 10,000 boys
were forced to join Boko
Haram. He added that the Global
Terrorism index shows
that Boko Haram is the
world’s most lethal
terrorist group, followed
by ISIS, while Al-Qaeda ranks third and the Fulani
militants mostly in the
middle belt rank fourth. In his own remarks, the
vice president of the 21st
Wilberforce Initiative, Elijah
Brown, added: “As of
December 2015, there
were 2,152,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in
Nigeria – the third
highest figure in Africa
and the seventh in the
world.” Concerning the Fulani
herdsmen, he said:
“Without intervention,
the crisis in the Middle
Belt will continue to
escalate. Some of the abducted
Chibok girls in a recent
Boko Haram video. “This could affect other
countries in West African
region like the Republic of
Benin, Chad, Cameroon,
Mali, and Niger.” Also speaking, Samson
Ayokunle, the president of
the Christian Association
of Nigeria, CAN, said: “The
situation is looked upon
by international bodies as the biggest humanitarian
disaster all over the
world. “A disturbing fact about
the problem is that it has
not received substantial
humanitarian response
from the world’s most
powerful nations as other disasters of relatively
smaller degrees in other
parts of the world. “I am therefore calling on the
world’s powerful nations to
come to the aid of Nigeria in
seeing to the end of insurgency. “Come to the aid of many
victims of insurgency within and
outside internally displaced
people’s camps or homes;
those who have been stripped
naked, the jobless, the orphaned, those maimed and
the widowed in Nigeria.” Meanwhile, the plight of IDPs
has been a cause for concern
as the network of Civil Society
Organisations (CSOs) in Borno
state, has said there are claims
that most female IDPs in the state have turned to
prostitution to survive. the third
highest figure in Africa
and the seventh in the
world.

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