Senate Seeks Agency for Integration of Repentant Boko Haram Suspects
The Senate yesterday began the consideration of a bill to create an agency to oversee the rehabilitation and integration of repentant Boko Haram members.
The four other bills that passed through first reading included the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Bill 2020 sponsored by Omo-Agege; Federal Polytechnic Maiduguri Bill 2020 sponsored by Senator Kashim Shettima; 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Bill 2020 and Metallurgy Training Institute Orumba Bill 2020.
Other objectives of the bill include: “To provide avenue for reconciliation and promote national security, and provide an-open-door and encouragement for other members of the group who are still engaged in the insurgency to abandon the group especially in the face of the military pressure; “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, repent and recant their violent ideology and re-enter mainstream politics, religion and society.”
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