The Senate on Thursday started the process of establishing an agency that would fully reintegrate repentant Boko Haram terrorists into the Nigerian society.
The proposed agency, according to the proposed legislation, would provide education for insurgents.The bill is titled, ‘National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalization and Integration of Repentant Insurgents in Nigeria’.
There were recent reports that the Nigerian military has a rehabilitation centre for repentant Boko Haram terrorists in Gombe State. It was further learnt that the repentant insurgents are trained in various professions like tailoring, mechanic and other skills. The Acting Defence Spokesman, Brig-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu recently said, “In 2016, the Federal Government initiated Operation Safe Corridor to de-radicalise repentant members of Boko Haram. It is not anything that is done haphazardly.“Those captured in combat are processed for prosecution, but the ones that have not been ideologically indoctrinated because they were conscripted; they were abducted are the ones being rehabilitated.
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