For the 601 deradicalised insurgents recently graduated from the Deradicalisation Rehabilitation and Reintegration, DRR camp in Gombe and reintegrated into society, it’s another chance to live and perhaps atone for their misdeeds. segalink NGRSenate
For the 601 deradicalised insurgents recently graduated from the Deradicalisation Rehabilitation and Reintegration, DRR camp in Gombe and reintegrated into society, it’s another chance to live and perhaps atone for their misdeeds. However, it’s not yet Uhuru, as a good number of them expressed fear of rejection.It was on a Friday when Madagali, a community in Adamawa Local Government Area of Adamawa State was attacked by the dreaded Islamist group, Boko Haram.
“The soldiers later led me back to the bush to take my brother. We are here together with our father now and our relations have come to visit us too.” Mallah said.The story is however different with 46-year-old Babagana Meranbi. Meranbi, a father of seventeen children born by three wives was a staff of Bama Local Government Education Authority in Borno State before he was captured by the insurgents in 2014 when they launched attacks on the local government headquarters.
When they came that day, they entered our house and ordered me to follow them in the presence of my father and mother. I first refused, but they said they would kill my father and mother and the little children in the house if I didn’t follow them. That was how I went with them for three years before I had the chance to run away and submit myself to the Nigerian Army.”
Since inception, OPSC has admitted 893 clients comprising 287 in the first 3 batches and 606 in batch 4 for the DRR programme. Out of the 287 clients in batch 1-3, 280 including 2 Chadians were successfully integrated while seven were deceased. Batch 4 clients arrived in two chalks on 27 November and 14 December 2019. This number comprises 592 Nigerians from 10 states and 14 foreign nationals from Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
“A special counter-narrative package by renowned clerics was also organised for the clients to correct or inculcate the right tenets of Islam and Christianity in them. As part of the DRR programme, visit from family members and prominent citizens were conducted while regular telephone conversations with relations to bridge gap and promote reconciliation were also allowed.
Zulum, who was represented by the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Babakura Jatau, denied reports that the state government gave the ex-combatants N100,000. 00 each.
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