“The victim communities displaced by insurgency and banditry from their ancestral homes are the ones to be rehabilitated and reintegrated as against terrorists and bandits that are responsible for their pain and plight.”
Sen. Istifanus Gyang has urged his colleagues in the Senate to reject the bill seeking the establishment of an agency for the rehabilitation and reintegration of repentant Boko Haram terrorists and bandits.
He called on all senators to reject the bill given what he called “its obvious negative implications for the security of the nation”.He warned that passing the bill was to incentivize terrorism and put the nation in perpetual harm’s way. “The bill is not only uncalled for but assaults the sensibility of Nigerians in view of the fact that most of the victims and communities affected by insurgency, banditry and violent attacks are still suffering from neglect and lack of the much needed government attention and intervention despite repeated calls.
Gyang lamented the irony where care and attention for terrorist takes precedence over and above that of their victims.According to him, it is inconceivable, incongruous and offensive to good conscience and equity.He added that attempts in certain quarters to compare and equate Boko Haram terrorist with the Niger Delta agitators which attracted the Presidential Amnesty initiative and Programme under the administration of President Yar’adua, was ludicrous.
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