The office of the National Security Adviser, NSA has designed an economic revitalisation programme targeted at the states currently affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, as part of measures to contain insurgency in the country.
The NSA, Mohammed Dasuki made this known yesterday, during the public presentation of the “Roll Out of Nigeria’s Soft Approach to Countering Terrorism,” where he disclosed that the economic empowerment programme was the Fourth Stream of the approach.
Part if the measure would also include interparty collaboration for counter-terrorism aimed at ensuring that party affiliation did not hinder stakeholders from contributing to efforts targeted at countering extremism.
“Based on our understanding of the economic root causes of terrorism and global best practices in addressing them, we are working with the governors of the six northeast states of Nigeria to design an economic revitalisation programme targeted towards the states most affected by terrorism.
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