Civil rights activist and Intersociety Executive Director, Emeka Umeagbalasi, has strongly denied claims by the New York Times that his organisation admitted to not verifying its genocide data. Speaking on Monday during Prime Time on Arise Television, Umeagbalasi described the report as inaccurate and misleading.
He stressed that Intersociety never told the New York Times it failed to verify its data, questioning why any serious interview would be granted without proper verification. According to him, the publication also misrepresented the context of the figures presented.
Umeagbalasi clarified that Intersociety’s report focused strictly on religiously motivated killings, estimating that between 2009 and 2025, about 125,000 Christians and 60,000 Muslims were killed by Islamic jihadists. He noted that these figures are separate from government data on general insecurity.
He added that in criminal justice, circumstantial evidence remains a globally accepted standard.
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