FridayHeadlines 21st of February 2020 1. ‘Amnesty’ plan for repentant BokoHaram members risky - 2. MBuhari won’t quit over insecurity, says govt - 3. Fed Gov: no going back on socialmedia regulation -
The Senate on Thursday got a Bill seeking “An agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of repentant insurgents in Nigeria Bill, 2020”.The agency, according to the Bill, “is to help disintegrate the violent and poisonous ideology that the group spreads as the programme will enable some convicted or suspected terrorists to express remorse over their actions, repent and recant their violent ideology and re-enter mainstream politics, religion and society.
Another lawyer, Ebun Olu Adegboruwa said any good proposal to end the insurgency is welcome. He noted that a previous government implemented an amnesty programme for Niger Delta militants. “However, all efforts should be made to properly monitor the repenting insurgents so that we don’t end up throwing the dreaded ones among them into the society to do more damage.”
Former Aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode said on his twitter handle: “A federal agency for ‘repentant’ Boko Haram members is to be established? An agency for beasts that slit open the throats of women and children, behead clerics, abduct and enslave thousands and bomb places of worship?”
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