President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration has been able to successfully show Nigerians that Boko Haram attacks is an act of terrorism not a religious agitation.
Buhari said this while receiving letter of credence from Ecuador’s new Ambassador to Nigeria, Leopoldo Rovayo Verdesoto.
The president said his administration has been able to expose Boko Haram as a group of “ruthless, destructive, and misguided terrorists’’.
He said “What we have succeeded in doing is to separate terrorism from religion.
“The initial attraction for recruitment was religion, but now people cannot relate with their relevance anymore and they are only associated with the destruction of lives and property.
“If your life does not mean anything to you, other peoples’ lives will not mean anything to you as well.
“And people are beginning to see that Boko Haram is just about destruction and nothing else.”
The President also assured the ambassador that his administration would continue to prioritise diversification and other measures to help the Nigeria’s economy to cushion the negative effects of falling oil prices.