Senate President David Mark yesterday assured the hierarchy of the Czech Republic Parliament that terrorism would soon become history in Nigeria.
Senator Mark gave the assurance when he met with the president of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Mr. Milan Stech and other principal officers of the parliament.
According to him, the operations against militants in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States will ensure the end of terrorism.
“The operation is being handled well and sooner than later, terrorism will soon become part of our history.
“We are conscious that fighting terror is difficult because of factors that dwell on human rights and collateral damages. But the operators of emergency that has been introduced in the area will bring terrorism to its end,” he further said.
While noting that Nigeria had played the role of ensuring stability in Africa, Mark said Nigeria had always been a home to all Africans, expressing regrets however that the nation came under attacks from misguided extremists.
“This trend became escalated by the situation in Mali, Niger, Libya and Chad, but the federal government tried to curtail this through appeal and other carrot approaches; but this did not quite succeed until the introduction of emergency rule,” he said.
He told the Czech parliamentarians that the National Assembly would continue to create legislative instruments that would deepen democracy in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general.
A statement issued by the senior special adviser, Media and Public Affairs, to the Senate president, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that Mr. Stech had sympathised with Nigerian government over the Boko Haram attacks.