Unic Press UK: The Buhari administration is not absorbing former members of the Boko Haram terror group into the Nigerian military.
In a statement Wednesday, Senior Special Assistant to Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, said that former terrorists who voluntarily surrendered themselves, laying down their weapons, are not being integrated or absorbed into the Nigerian military. What has been the situation is that those who completed the Federal Government’s de-radicalization and rehabilitation programme.
“None of the 601 former Boko Haram members who voluntarily laid down their arms, and have recently graduated from the Federal Government’s de-radicalization and rehabilitation programme, is going into the military. This is the fourth such graduation of repentant Boko Haram fighters and not one of such graduates has been absorbed into the military. The public needs to be reassured that the de-radicalization, rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremists of the Buhari administration code named “Operation Safe Corridor,” follows an established example from countries with similar experiences, and is supported academically and materially by the European Union and the United Nations.”
