Sunday Aborisade, Friday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba, Olaleye Aluko and John Charles The Senate on Thursday started work on a bill for a law seeking the establishment of a national agency for education
and rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram insurgents.
The proposed agency, according to the legislation, would provide educational opportunities for the insurgents. The main aims of the bill are to “provide avenue for rehabilitating, de-radicalising, educating and reintegrating the defectors, repentant and detained members of the insurgent group Boko Haram to make them useful members of the society.
“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. The Borno State Government had also revealed that about 1,400 repentant Boko Haram suspects had been released by the military and rehabilitated into society.
“Like we have always said, it is the conviction of many Christian and indeed Nigerians that the Federal Government is trying to make insurgency a lucrative business for the large number of unemployed Nigerian youths and young persons, if not what is the justification of the special attention been given to the terrorists at the detriment of the welfare of the victims and the security agents fighting in the bush?”Commenting on Geidam’s bill, the Chibok community in Borno State lambasted the...
The leader of the pan socio-cultural group, Chief Edward Ujege, said that the Senate should not overlook Benue State which had yet to recover from the destruction by Fulani herdsmen.
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