The
United States State Department has said that Boko Haram killed the most number
of people in 2013 and 2014 when compared with other terrorist groups in the
world.
The
State Department, in a recent report, compiled a list of the world’s deadliest
terrorist groups, with the total fatalities that they caused in 2013 and 2014.
The
Boko Haram group killed the highest number of people in the period.
The
Boko Haram group has killed thousands and displaced millions of Nigerians as a
result of its activities in the North-Eastern part of the country.
The
report said the Boko Haram group caused about 8,239 deaths in the period; the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq killed about 8,038 people. The
Taliban group in Afghanistan caused 5,848 deaths.
The
Al-Shabaab group in Somalia killed around 1,539 people in the period, while the
Maoists/Communist Party of India-Maoist killed 188.
A
security expert based in Abuja, Mr. Lanre Tella, said it was high time the
Federal Government worked on its plan to crush the insurgent group.
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