Presidency: No Plan to Conscript Repentant Terrorists into Armed Forces
No repentant Boko Haram terrorist has been conscripted into the armed forces, the presidency said last night, adding that there is no plan to enlist any of them in future.
He emphasised that none of the 601 deradicalised ex-members of the Boko Haram group would be recruited into the armed forces despite the completion of the deradicalisation process. “It is important for the public to know that nobody has ever been absorbed into the military from the deradicalised Boko Haram and there is no such plan for their absorption. None of the 601 former Boko Haram members who voluntarily laid down their arms, and have recently graduated from the federal government’s deradicalisation and rehabilitation programme is going into the military.
He said hardened terrorists are ruled out of the deradicalisation process, while beneficiaries of the process were rather those forced into violent extremism against their own will. “It is also important to note that this programme does not have a place for hard-boiled, ideologically hardened terrorists. It only admits, after careful scrutiny, repentant fighters that were captured and forced to bear arms in the first instance, and there are many who have been drafted by force.
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