Validation with Measurement and Model

Terrorism in the light of this work has no clear cut positive effects. However, this sub-heading suffices in order to give credence to the scholastic demands that this work requires. In Nigeria as a nation, the impacts of terrorism as already been reviewed from this work tilts mainly to the negative side. The positive impacts of terrorism in Nigeria is purely subjective to an individual or groups observation.

Cases abounds wherein the government of Nigeria is coerced through terroristic means to give in to the demands of terrorists (for instance, the release of Asari Dokubo from prison).

This happens only when such demands are for the greater good. However, it is pertinent to reiterate that the giving in to the demands of terrorists by the government or individual persons being pressurized by terrorists does not assures the good morality or will of terrorism.

One important fact that follows terroristic incursions is that lessons are learnt both on the part of the terrorists involved and on the part of those terrorised (be it individual persons, the public or the government). Nigerian citizens learn from the endemic terrorism in the country in recent times, the act of being just in serving the public. It is glaring now that denial of people‟s right and injustice can trigger acts of terrorism; citizens of Nigeria more often than not these days eschew from acts of injustice. The lessons for the government to learn is in like manner, the point then is putting it to work. Extreme caution ought to be always applied by the government of Nigeria in handling state affairs as a result of the terrorism rampant in Nigeria today; the Nation is counting on that.

Terrorism can lead to dialogue and changes in government. More often than not human beings generally come together to agree on a basic issue after strife; same is applicable in terrorism. Terrorism can serve as a means through which an insurgent group in a peculiar state and the government can come to a form of understanding and agreement. An oppressive government can be forced to step down or overthrown through the persistence of terrorism and a period of peace will reign. Dictatorial government that unleashes all forms of suppressive measures on the citizens can be forced to step down via terrorism. The problem in Nigeria is that the government always pay deaf ears to the pains and burdens of the citizens. Thus, when an insurgent group emerges, the tendency on the part of the government is always to stand their ground due to their inability to feel the pains of the masses and the fear of their government being toppled. The government can go to any length in fighting the terrorists with military force without considering any other means of achieving the sanity required.

It has been rightly observed that terrorism helps citizens of any given country to learn how to deal with situations especially post-traumatic stress and shock that follows terroristic

ravages. The citizens of Nigeria residing in Borno state and other states that records the highest rate of terrorism in Nigeria had as a result of incessant death records, constant molestations and destruction of goods and properties, developed phlegmatic ability to stand any challenge in life.

The gumption and fortitude to face any charging scenes of life had been made available to them by the wide spread terroristic attacks around their milieu. For such people who always live in constant expectation of sudden attacks, the current economic recession that Nigeria is facing will not affect them adversely because they started facing theirs long ago. They had learned to survive and move on irrespective of all odds life has posed to them.

One way or the other, the current terroristic tendencies rife in Nigerian in the recent time had made the Nigerian government to improve the securing facilities, operatives and services of the country. Focus is now on keeping in constant check the national security measures. Every citizens of Nigeria had seen National security as a collective responsibility.

People now check into hotels, guest houses and motels with identity cards. Most hospitals now requests for police clearance in order to attend to patients with wound as common as deep knife or bottle cuts because of the current security stance in the country. Abinitio, such security measures were not in place and where it is in place, was more often than not hardly strictly adhered to.

The current terroristic mode in Nigeria had made policy makers understand how to best deal with terrorism and to put in place preventive measures so that individual persons or groups are not motivated to make themselves heard through various acts of terrorism. The state of affairs now is that every citizen in Nigeria today is on the lookout for a terrorist or terrorist groups and to do all that it takes to squash them diplomatically or otherwise.

Terrorism can portray clearly the contrast of evil cruelty to loving compassion.

Terrorists kidnap children, rape the girls, give the boys guns and show them how to hate and kill like the Boko Haram terrorists do in Nigeria: Good people on the other hand show tangible positive love; they teach children how to be useful, responsible, how to gain self respect and respect their elders; they teach the young men and women how to become doctors, nurses, painters of beauty to bring light to the world. For instance, when the government will be maintaining on peace talks, granting amnesty to terrorists and offering free education to her citizens, it will win the hearts of the masses and they will see for themselves which is better, terrorism or non-violent approach. This provides clarity of choice for the people. Terrorism through its inhuman brutality exposes itself for what it truly is, which is pure evil and wickedness on the part of the perpetrators.

Finally, this work submits that these afore-mentioned positive impacts of terrorism in Nigeria relay the message in its line of thoughts that terrorism is an evil act that should not be embarked upon. All the points outlined in the positive impacts have the alchemic mode of exposing terrorism as pure evil; this is the very good part of this work. It should then be born in mind that, that which makes Nigeria not to appear to function as one Nation under God with special reference to ethnicism should actually be the major source of her strength. Ethnicism should provoke challenges for healthy competition amongst the ethnic groups and not segregation and hatred.