Military Moves 43 Surrendered Insurgents To De-Radicalisation Centre
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Nigerian Military on Saturday, July 22, 2017, airlifted 43 Boko Haram insurgents to Gombe where they are to immediately commence a de-radicalization and rehabilitation programme under the auspices of Operation Safe Corridor.
Speaking while handing over the terrorists, who recently surrendered to troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru assured that the penitent insurgents will be given a new lease of life as they commence their journey back into the civil society through the de-radicalization and rehabilitation processes.
General Attahiru urged the surrendered insurgents to embrace and undertake the programme whole heartedly to enable them benefit and positively reorient their views about life and the society in general.
General Attahiru also called on all other insurgents to abandon the futile struggle and reject the hypocrisy of the Boko Haram leadership who live in affluence, while their foot soldiers die in hunger.
A statement by the Deputy Director, Public Relations of Theatre Command, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, said over 70 Boko Haram insurgents had earlier this month, surrendered to troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in the North East.
Nwachukwu said the surrendered insurgents took advantage of the window of grace provided by the Federal Government for insurgents, who are willing to give up terrorism and turn a new leaf to surrender to any military location closest to them.
