The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has provided starter packs to 601 repentant Boko Haram members released into the society after undergoing six months de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programme at a camp in Gombe State.

Head of Corporate Services of NEDC Malam Abba Musa presented the items at the graduation ceremony of the batch four of the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme for the repentant insurgents.

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He said the items distributed included 130 welding machines, 20 carpentry tools, 111 barbing kits, and power generators, 105 sewing machines, 95 leather works, and shoe-making equipment, among others.

Musa, who represented the managing director of the commission, Mohammed Goni Alkali, said the aim of the empowerment tools was to support the repentant Boko Haram members to be self-reliant when released into the society after going through the DRR programme.

He urged the beneficiaries to use the items for the purposes they were meant, to be employed and employers of labour after returning to their respective communities.

In his address, Deputy Governor of the state, Dr Manassah Daniel Jatau, commended the repentant terrorists for embracing peace in order to contribute to the development of society.

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Repented Boko Haram abi.

Incentives for more killings

601 repentant Boko Haram members released into the society

Sho!

If it would help them to stay away from terrorism, then it is a welcome development.

I believe the move is as a result of the Leahy law and the accusations by the Human right —Amnesty body.

Well, if militants could be rehabilitated, reintegrated and given foreign scholarships, maybe it will be good for the gander as well.

What a hand shake for killing and maiming Nigerians?

am not Happy about this.... these people have been a torn in the flesh of thousands.... they should get what they deserve..

Why wielding machine and generator ? Does the Buhari govt realise that wielding machine and generator and two critical components every Boko Haram bomb maker ever caught had with them ? It shows both equipment are very requisite in making IEDs used to kill our soldiers ..Yet Buhari chose those items as the items to give captured Boko Haram fighters as gifts

SarkinYarki:
Why wielding machine and generator ? Does the Buhari govt realise that wielding machine and generator and two critical components every Boko Haram bomb maker ever caught had with them ? It shows both equipment are very requisite in making IEDs used to kill our soldiers ..Yet Buhari chose those items as the items to give captured Boko Haram fighters as gifts

Exactly my thinking!
601 generators and welding machines in Sambisa May God help us

it seems like it is more lucrative be a terrorist or law breaker than a hard working citizen in this country

To forge weapons locally maybe?

Officialgarri:
If it would help them to stay away from terrorism, then it is a welcome development.

I believe the move is as a result of the Leahy law and the accusations by the Human right —Amnesty body.

Well, if militants could be rehabilitated, reintegrated and given foreign scholarships, maybe it will be good for the gander as well.

It is already good for the gaadet Oga. Though stories about the ones who reneged and went back to sambisa abound, let's hope these ones are different and also help beg their immediate communities not to reject them.

IduNaOba:
To forge weapons locally maybe?

Local bomb maker wey no get Gen, that one na bomb maker?

frankyychiji:
It is already good for the gaadet Oga. Though stories about the ones who reneged and went back to sambisa abound, let's hope these ones are different and also help beg their immediate communities not to reject them.

I haven't heard of any case of any of them missing. You can help with a source.
However, if it's true, since a terrorist can rendezvous with his team, then the NA should seize that opportunity to track him to the others and wipe of the menace once and for all

Officialgarri:

I haven't heard of any case of any of them missing. You can help with a source.
However, if it's true, since a terrorist can rendezvous with his team, then the NA should seize that opportunity to track him to the others and wipe of the menace once and for all

I read Kperogi's column about some of them joining, their mates to attack..Life no balance

More like a reward for the perfect job done under the guise of rehabilitation..

It means Shekau has a greater reward if surrender too? Buharinomics pattern of rewarding and empowering his people..

ogododo:


I read Kperogi's column about some of them joining, their mates to attack..Life no balance

You know you can't really take the words of oppositions serious. They need to fault any move made by the government

The reward for state sponsored terrorism.Gush!

hisexcellency34:
601 repentant Boko Haram members released into the society

601 terrorists sleeper cells planted into the society with State funding

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Officialgarri:
....However, if it's true, since a terrorist can rendezvous with his team, then the NA should seize that opportunity to track him to the others and wipe of the menace once and for all

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The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.

Officialgarri:

You know you can't really take the words of oppositions serious. They need to fault any move made by the government

Hope you de hear about the new attack in Maiduguri

And the displaced gets nothing

ThatFairGuy1:
And the displaced gets nothing

Exactly

sapientia:


Exactly

Law of mutual exclusive