“I have seen people who are well-to-do being recruited into terrorism.” - Osinbajo

The vice president in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, on Tuesday, October 20, quoted Osinbajo as saying that the development is a clear departure from the case of those who were lured into participating in terrorism acts for money.

He stated this while receiving the United States Special Envoy on Counter Terrorism Communication, Rashad Hussain, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday, October 19.

The statement quoted Osinbajo as saying: “I have seen people who are well-to-do being recruited into terrorism.”

According to the vice president,
he wondered why for some strange reasons, terrorism that appears completely mindless and almost insane gains currency in a way that gets regular recruits.

 Osinbajo said that a crisis communication centre that provides information countering violent extremist ideology, particularly in the North-East, would be set up by the present administration.

He further said that present administration start a campaign involving civil societies, young people and Non-Governmental Organisations, coming together to provide positive counter narratives against those of violent groups like Boko Haram.

Meanwhile, Osinbajo has claimed that the anti-graft war will reach all those involved in the corruption cases, adding that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government will not spare any individual found guilty.

The vice president made this statement when he spoke in Abuja on Wednesday, October 14, about reforms in public institutions in the course of the 21st National Economic Summit.