200 young boys graduated from the Darul-Quran training camp operated by the Islamic...

ABOUT 200 young boys graduated from the Darul-Quran training camp operated by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) in February, according to a report by the Institute of Security Studies (ISS)

This report titled ‘Children on the battlefield: ISWAP’s latest recruits’ was published on the website of the ISS on Thursday.

The ISS reported that those familiar with the programme disclosed that ISWAP operates 50 such camps in the Lake Chad Basin where children from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger were trained.

“Institute for Security Studies (ISS) research shows that about 200 young boys graduated from Darul Quran in early February.

“In the ISWAP video, instructors noted that the group had similar training camps in different locations. The report states that those familiar with the programme told the ISS about 50 such camps on the Lake Chad islands, where youth from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria were present,” the report stated.

ISS further said that formal education had been one of Boko Haram’s primary targets, with 5,000 classrooms razed in northeast Nigeria since the insurgency commenced in 2009.

The report observed that a video that showed children being fed contrasted with their realities in the training camps.

ISS said the children were subjected to dire conditions characterised by abuses such as whipping or hitting, starvation, exhaustion and lack of sleep.

“Children deemed to be slow learners or not fit to be trained are treated as slaves and assigned non-combat roles. They are deployed to commanders’ homes, where they perform tasks such as fetching firewood and water, doing laundry and delivering messages to other villages,” the report added.

The report also noted that although ill-treatment of civilians, use of youngsters in combat, enslavement of women and girls and starving children to death were among the reasons for Boko Haram’s split, ISWAP has started the same practices.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in 2021 said West and Central Africa is the region with the highest number of child soldiers and the most underage victims of sexual violence in the world.

UNICEF said since 2016, government forces and armed groups have recruited more than 21,000 children.


Way Forward

The ISS report advised governments and other stakeholders in the Lake Chad region to urgently prevent more children from being recruited through preventive instead of reactionary responses.

It noted that the advice was based on the understanding that the lack of formal education and livelihoods were among the conditions that enable children’s recruitment.

“Community consultations are the anchor for any strategy to address child recruitment. Without this vital step, interventions will be less effective, and former recruits may be stigmatised and rejected,” the report advised.

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Ehn ehn....just imagine . The land is now filled with another fresh batch of gun-wielding kids who have been dehumanized to follow the dictates of radical Islam. But I'm not surprised. Afterall , this what happens when parents give birth to too many children and can't keep proper tabs on them.

And instead of our useless government putting an end to terrorism, they're busy implementing senseless subsidies that can't even elevate the situation of the average Nigerian. May God punish Buhari and his band of misfits

Guess this is part of propagating Islam and pronouncing the Prophet's tradition

What they use Quran to brainwashed those boys is jihadist and how to killed thr fellow Islamist.

New set of terrorist will be unveiled soon

And federal government in collaboration with ASUU are not graduating students from higher institution.

Tueh

longetivity:
New set of terrorist will be unveiled soon

they have been unveiled since they re only waiting for their boss to give them go ahead

Predator missile ready for deployment

"The report states that those familiar with the programme told the ISS about 50 such camps on the Lake Chad islands, where youth from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria were present,” the report stated."

This con3 is just anyhow.

They think they're deceiving us

Awareness should be created in the north to control excessive birth especially in the north and also especially among poor couples who give birth to several kids without taking care of them ...their elites will for sure turn a blind eye cos those kids will be a tool to rig and win them election.

That's how they catch them young. Every terrorist is a Muslim though not every Muslim is a terrorist

The future is what?

Wow congrats when are they going for NYSC?

Russia is an energy superpower. The world needs Russia's natural gas.

Can't the Whole West Africa Come Together And Flushout This Animals?

Since the Russia-Ukraine saga came onboard, nobody takes other things including the once powerful covid-19 seriously...

Br

Borno state should be allowed to break away from nigeria.

K

More bandits incoming.

Religion of peace.

No comment.

Unexpected Death awaits all of them....

#NoCap........

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They have successfully been enlisted into the DEATH ROW list

Islam the religion of piss indeed

As government dey release repented terrorist na so terrorist sef dey graduate new batch like NYSC. What a big shame.. Sai baba!

May their days never be long

Bastards!!!