by Kolapo Olapoju
An official in the office of the National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, says the Nigerian media and the international community, are collectively responsible for the setback in the Federal Government’s fight against insurgency in the country.
According to an official in the NSA’s office, Col. Bello Fadile, the failure of the government to set up “the fusion centre (The counter-terrorism centre) headed by the NSA had also been hindering the office from carrying out its function.
Fadile accused the international community of being partial in its evaluation of the government’s strategy in the fight against terrorism and the Nigerian media of not being nationalistic enough in its reportage of the war.
He made the claims at a seminar to raise capacity within the criminal justice system, on Tuesday, February 3, in Abuja.
Fadile said that the international community makes so much noise about rights violations in the North-East region, while only giving little attention to more sordid rights violations taking place in some other nations that were also fighting terrorism.
He said the Federal Government’s strategy to prevent recruitment of more members by Boko Haram “is not being effective because we don’t have the media”.
“The media is one of our major problems. We have to be nationalistic. They (the media) can help us. Why do we have more attention on rights violations in Nigeria? Why the double standard from the international community? Nobody is talking of human rights violations in Syria and other places,” he said.
Furthermore, Fadile wondered why developed nations couldn’t block the posting of Boko Haram videos on the internet, saying: “Why is that anything about Boko Haram easily gets online? Why can’t they help us to block it?”
Bring BH to heel n the media will report ur success! No, let me guess, the posts r so distracting, the NSA simply has to drop what it’s about to mull over opinions n footage posted online n so let BH get a further lead. Excuses, excuses.