The office of the National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan has fingered the Nigerian media and the international community as promoters of the Boko Haram sect.

Admitting the failure of the government to set up “the fusion centre or the counter-terrorism centre” headed by the NSA, an official in the NSA’s office, Col. Bello Fadile, said such centre was supposed to analyse intelligence, coordinate the activities of security agencies and apportion tasks to the appropriate organisations.

Fadile said the Central Bank of Nigeria had agreed to fund the project and that a location had been provided for the project but that the final processing required for the take-off was still pending at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Fadile, who spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at a seminar to raise capacity within the criminal justice system, accused the international community of bias in its assessment of government’s approach to the fight against terrorism.

He also accused the Nigerian media of non-nationalistic reportage of the developments in the war.

According to him, the international community continued to make so much noise about rights violations in the North-East region, but only gave little attention to more heinous rights violations taking place in some other nations that were also fighting terrorism.

Fadile said the Federal Government’s “soft approaches” strategy to prevent recruitment of more members for the insurgent group “is not being effective because we don’t have the media”.

“The media is one of our major problems. We have to be nationalistic. They (the media) can help us. Why do we have more attention on rights violations in Nigeria? Why the double standard from the international community? Nobody is talking of human rights violations in Syria and other places,” he said.

He wondered why it was difficult for the developed nations to block the posting of Boko Haram videos on the internet, adding that much more international attention was being given to ISIS than the terrorists in Nigeria.

“Why is it that anything about Boko Haram easily gets online? Why can’t they help us to block it?” he queried.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, noted in his keynote address that “striking a delicate balance between the demands of human rights and national security” always constituted a grave concern in every nation that fought anti-terrorism war.

Adoke, who was represented by one of his Senior Special Assistants, Prof. Peter Akper, however, said “the arrest and arraignment process, including the question of remand of suspected terrorists require a delicate balance between constitutional liberties and national security.”