The Defence
Headquarters, DHQ, has provided reasons President Muhammadu Buhari government’s
took the decision to free some ‘repentant’ members of Boko Haram terrorists.
DHQ said before
releasing the former terrorists, it had concluded their rehabilitation as a
shift from the use of arms and weapons to a soft approach to the war against
members of the Islamic sect in the Northeast region.
Brig. Gen. Onyema
Nwachukwu, the Acting Defence Spokesman, disclosed this, yesterday, in an
interview with The Guardian.
He further stated
that the initiative is only targeted at low-risk Boko Haram members.
The Defence
Spokesman came up with the explanation in response to fears by Nigerians and
calls for suspension of rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram members into the
society.
The reported recent
release of about 1,400 ‘repentant’ terrorist suspects, who were in detention,
generated a lot of controversies around the country.
Nwachukwu said, “In
2016, the Federal Government initiated Operation Safe Corridor (OSC) to de-radicalise
repentant members of Boko Haram.
“It is not anything
that is done haphazardly. The target audience is not those captured in combat.
No!
“Those captured in
combat are processed for prosecution, but the ones that have not been
ideologically indoctrinated because they were conscripted; they were abducted
are the ones being rehabilitated.
“They call them
low-risk combatants. Those ones do not buy into Boko Haram agenda; they were
forced into it. These repentant members have been assisting the military, by
providing intelligence on Boko Haram’s activities.”
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