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FG Clarifies ‘Recruiting’ Repentant Boko Haram Terrorists Into The Military

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Lucky Irabor

The authorities of the Nigerian Army have submitted that there isn’t any reality in studies that repentant Boko Haram terrorists are been recruited into the Military.

The Chief of Defence Workers, Common Fortunate Irabor who was represented by the Chief of Defence Logistics, Main Common Adeyemi Yekini debunked the studies on Tuesday whereas talking on the opening ceremony of the Operation Protected Hall stakeholders’ assembly held on the Defence Headquarters, Abuja.

He acknowledged that there are stringent measures put in place for recruitment into the navy and different safety companies, and there’s no provision for recruiting ex-Boko Haram fighters even after they’ve been rehabilitated

In keeping with him, not one of the over 1,000 individuals who’ve gone via Operation Protected Hall (OPSC) has ever been recruited into the navy or different safety companies, neither is there any future plan to recruit them.

He acknowledged that Operation Protected Hall is just not a recruitment course of however is focused at deradicalizing, rehabilitating, and reintegrating repentant insurgents.

Press Informant gathered that Tuesday’s occasion was designed for stakeholders within the programme to style out modalities for the switch of rehabilitated insurgents to the state governments.

In his phrases, “Let me at this juncture state that OPSC is just not a purely navy operation, as some have urged. The OPSC is a peace-building effort and its important duties are carried out by related MDAS with the mandatory experience.

“The navy and different safety and legislation enforcement companies are concerned to the extent of making an enabling setting and management for the DRR Programme to operate effectively.

“There have additionally been considerations that OPSC graduates are being recruited by the navy and paramilitary companies.

“I want to clearly dispute this assertion and reassure Nigerians that not one of the over 1,000 rehabilitated Nigerians from OPSC DRR has been recruited and can by no means be recruited into the Nigerian Army or sister safety providers resulting from stringent safeguards in place to stop such recruitment.

“I’m significantly enthralled to notice that OPSC has continued to enhance its applications ideas, practices and procedures through the years. In the present day, this initiative has change into a mannequin that has been replicated in all of the Lake Chad Basin Nations. It has additionally elicited the curiosity of each native and worldwide our bodies together with academia.

“The DRR Program consists of psychological humanitarian therapies that reassure and supply alternate options to low-profile combatants via psycho-social/psycho-spiritual therapies, recreations, vocational coaching, and introductory western schooling, thereby countering BHT/ISWAP ideologies and lowering their recruitment drive whereas depleting the important mass of their preventing pressure.”

FG Clarifies ‘Recruiting’ Repentant Boko Haram Terrorists Into The Army

Lucky Irabor

FG Clarifies ‘Recruiting’ Repentant Boko Haram Terrorists Into The Army