Some serving and past senators have kicked against the bill that seeks to establish an agency for the rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram members.
The lawmakers described the bill as needless, waste of resources and misplaced priority. This is even as they questioned the nationality of the insurgents.
They fear that releasing the purported repentant Boko Haram militants into civilian population could be counterproductive as hardened fighters would return to the terror group to commit more atrocities.The bill titled, ‘‘National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of Repentant Insurgents in Nigeria’ was introduced in the Senate on Thursday.Having been read for the first time, the details are expected to be discussed on another legislative day.
* 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. “Before you know it, they will resettle around Nigeria and attack and take over. Doesn’t make sense. The best thing is for them to go back to their countries and if they want to repent, they repent and surrender. That’s all,” he said.
“Enemy can never be rehabilitated. We have been on this thing since the time of Jonathan. The president said when we vote for them, they will eradicate Boko Haram but Boko Haram has been on the increase since then and this is almost six years now. They are not making significant impact.” “I remember most Boko Haram that were arrested and these ‘suicide bombers’ with all these terrorists, most of them were caught on this act, retreated to IDP, they kept them there, trained them, feed them, overfed them, within the shortest time at their disposal, within three months, they call them out of the IDP, they absorb them in the army.
For Shehu Sani, an ex-Kaduna senator, the situation in the North-east has been properly taken care of with the establishment of the North East Development Commission . “We cannot start diverting resources that supposed to be used to bring an end to the violence and the killings and fund NEDC in the name of setting up an agency. As far as I’m concerned, that repentant Boko Haram agency is going to be a factory for producing more suicide bombers and more killers.”
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