Government to rehabilitate surrendered Boko
Haram members
2014-09-26 12:03
Abuja - The Federal Government on Thursday said
that the terrorists who had willingly surrendered
themselves would be "re-orientated and
rehabilitated’’.
The Coordinator of National Information Centre,
Mike Omeri, made this known when he briefed
newsmen on the update of security situation in the
North-East in Abuja.
Omeri said that the decision was to enable the
repentant insurgents to be re-admitted into the
society to contribute their quota to the
development of the country.
He said government had put in place a number of
strategies to ensure that the insurgents that were
turning themselves in undergo a process of de-
radicalisation and rehabilitation.
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"There is a counter-insurgency document that
was launched at the beginning of this situation
and that document has a number of strategies.
"This is to ensure that those who have found
themselves in such unfortunate situation are
deradicalised.
"Various methods will be used, including religious
leaders and the school system,’’ he said.
Omeri also said that those who refused to give up
arms would face the law of the land.
He said the killing of the impostor leader of the
Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, had left negative
effect on his followers and threw spanner in the
camp of the terrorist group.
"Most of the terrorists are fleeing under various
guises’’. Omeri said.
Omeri said the killing had boosted the troops’
moral, adding that the armed forces had found
the winning strategy against the terrorists and
would not go back on it.
It would be recalled that 148 terrorists had given
up their arms in the last one week.