Perhaps when the Nigerian senator, Ibrahim Gaidam, sought to sway his colleagues to back the formation of a commission for ‘repentant’ Boko Haram members, he never imagined he would be stirring the hornets’ nest.
many by Boko Haram, during the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari between May 2015 and May 2019, a report analysed by PREMIUM TIMES also indicated.
* Gaining a greater understanding of the insurgents will enable the government to address the immediate concerns of violence and study the needs of de-radicalization effort to improve the process of de-radicalisation. To put action to words, the federal government began its ‘reintegration’ of the ex-fighters into the community they once hounded., whom it said have given up membership of the terrorist group, to the Borno State government.had been ‘’rehabilitated under the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme and are now set to be reintegrated into the society’’.
”To even suggest that Boko Haram terrorists deserve an amnesty program because Niger Delta militants have one is flat-out boneheaded,’’ he said. ‘’Niger Delta militants whose ancestral land is the nation’s cash cow took to militancy to protest the despoliation of their environment and the impoverishment of their people.’’‘’Boko Haram terrorists, on the other hand, are just nihilistic, homicidal thugs who murder innocent men, women, and children.
He also says, ”the argument is sick. They are two different issues. The ideology that drove the militancy was purely economic-based. The ideology driving the Boko Haram is evil. You cannot equate the two.” ‘’In the case of the militants, Yar’adua extended amnesty to them and they embraced it. Has Boko Haram done that or is planning to that? The man should be arrested. We all know what the militants were fighting for. What is Boko Haram fighting for? Many believe the militants were justified. Boko Haram does not have any justification. We now know those backing Boko Haram,’’ Mr Agbaje said.
How many Nigerian prisoners were given jobs after their release,’’ asks Akinsode Awopeju, a security trainer at the Citizens and Leadership Training Centre, Jos. ‘’Are they encouraging more people to join Boko Haram? Establishing a commission for repentant Boko Haram is an insult to the image of the Nigerians. The government should not start what it cannot finish.’’
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