Ex-Soldiers Advises FG On Re-Integrating Terrorists Into Society.
Retired soldiers have advised the Federal Government to be careful with its decision to rehabilitate and reintegrate some repentant terrorists who have gone through the government’s de-radicalization programme, Operations Safe Corridor.
The OSC which began under former president Muhammadu Buhari has run for several years and no fewer than 4,000 ex-Boko Haram members go through the programme.
The ex-soldiers said, in Gombe State alone, no fewer than 2,168 ex-Boko Haram members passed through the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration camp at the Kwami Local Government Area of Gombe State in the last eight years, while, in January 2023, 613 rehabilitated terrorists undergoing de-radicalisation and were scheduled to be handed over by the military authorities and handed over to their respective state governors.
Also speaking, a former director of the Department of State Services, Mr Mike Ejiofor, said the rehabilitation programme seemed not well-thought-out and ill-timed.
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