Government’s anti-terrorism efforts ‘yielding results’

The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC), a human rights organisation, says a report recently released by the Institute for Economics and Peace is an indication that the anti-terrorism effort of the federal government is yielding results.

The report said Nigeria made a significant contribution to reducing deaths from terrorism.

Reacting, Ismail Abubakar, spokesman of SHAC, said the development is a mirror for the military and the government to evaluate their strategies in the war against terror.

“SHAC is pleased to note the release of the 2016 Global Terrorism Index by the Institute for Economics and Peace,” he said.

“From that report it is clear that there has been a tremendous reduction in the total number of deaths from terror attacks in Nigeria, and that the drop is as high as 80%. This means that there were fewer deaths from terror-related incidents.

“We further learnt from the report that the drop in the number of deaths from terrorists’ attacks is attributable to the decreased activity of Boko Haram in Nigeria following their respective military setbacks.

“It is remarkable that someone is finally admitting that the government and military efforts dealing with terrorism is finally paying off and on a large scale for that matter.

“Nigeria is just one of the two countries with the reduction in deaths from terrorism, the other country being Iraq.

“The implication of the report is that hundreds and thousands of lives have been saved in one year, which shows the administration’s commitment to the global war against terrorism and focuses on reducing needless human suffering.”