..Narrates How Deradicalised Boko Haram Member Killed His Father and Took Away his Two Cows
By Ogechi Okorie
Abuja (Precise Post) – Federal lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Ali Ndume has urged the federal government to rehabilitate victims of the Boko Haram insurgency and not the ex-terrorists.
Ndume, who is also the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, made the call during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on July 29, 2020.
Rather than rehabilitating the repentant terrorists, Ndume wants the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to rehabilitate the people that have been worst-hit by the insurgency in the region.
In doing this, he asked the Federal Government to give the Internally Displaced Persons scattered across the country start-up packs to begin a new life.
“If the government is serious about a programme like this, it should start with the victims first and not the perpetrators.
“I am in Maiduguri. The worst part of it is that those that have been so-called deradicalised are released into society. There is no monitoring device. One of them that came back killed his father and took away his two cows.”
Operation Safe Corridor is an initiative of the Federal Government aimed at rehabilitating low-risk, “repentant” Boko Haram fighters.
