Insurgency: Cyber-terrorists out to frustrate IDPs’ return home – SHAC

The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre has described the report in a section of the media that some elements of the Boko Haram sect were currently hoisting their flags in parts of North east of the country as fake, ridiculous and unacceptable.
The group said the false alarm was an attempt at frustrating the ongoing efforts to relocate and rehabilitate the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) back to their homes.
SHAC said the information was not true as “it remains a figment of the imagination of those merchants of death and profiteers of crisis who have vowed to see to the destabilisation of this country.” SHAC Director of Communications, Lawrence Audu, at a press conference in Abuja yesterday said the false report was capable of putting the life of humanitarian workers in danger and thwarting efforts at relocating internally displaced persons back home.
The group therefore called on Nigerians and the international collaborators to “disregard such heinous and unbridled stories being churned out by Boko Haram cyber thugs to discourage the federal government and the Nigerian people about seeing to the final end of Boko Haram in Nigeria.” He said, “For the records, the Nigerian Military has won the war and no Jupiter can reverse the successes achieved even if they are happy or not.
Efforts are ongoing and credible humanitarian organisations have continued to work with the IDPs of which many have returned home.
“At this juncture, we call on all Nigerians to always verify the sources of their information before rebroadcasting because statistics show that fake news and rumours have been largely responsible for the escalation of crisis in most parts of the country.
“Nigerians must be aware that one major component of terror is information flow.
Terrorists like ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Shabab and their collaborators create dreadful images to instill fear followed by hate which travels like wild fire.
Since negative news appeals more to the human senses, they are shared without proper verification to its authenticity.
“Nigerians must desist from such acts since it helps the author achieve their aims very cheaply while those sharing achieve nothing but a society divided against itself along ethnic and religious lines.”