Lai Mohammed explains why repentant Boko Haram members can’t be prosecuted

The Minister of Data and Tradition, Lai Mohammed, has given a motive why repentant Biko Haram members can’t be prosecuted.

In current weeks, no fewer than 1000 Boko Haram fighters and their households have handed themselves over to the Military within the southern Borno cities of Konduga, Bama, and Mafa. The repentant insurgents have gone on to be rehabilitated and reintegrated by the navy.

This motion has been condemned by many Nigerians who’re of the opinion that as a substitute of rehabilitation, the surrendered insurgents ought to be prosecuted for acts of terrorism.

Nonetheless, in an interview with NAN in Washington, Mohammed defined why the repentant insurgents cannot be prosecuted. In his phrases

“I personally spoke to the navy authority earlier than I left Nigeria they usually mentioned what they had been doing is what the worldwide follow dictates about troopers that surrendered that ought to be handled as prisoners of warfare.

You can not simply shoot them as a result of there are worldwide conventions that give rights additionally to prisoners of warfare

What the navy is doing is that, once they give up, they profile them to make sure that they’re real and reintegrate them into the society,’’ he mentioned

He applauded the navy for the current improve within the variety of insurgents which are turning themselves in.

“The truth that we’re witnessing insurgents submitting in droves requires commendation of our navy for his or her doggedness.

We should not neglect that two months in the past, Nigerians had been placing stress on the President to recruit mercenaries to fight the warfare towards terror as a result of they mentioned we had been shedding the warfare.

The President, nonetheless, remained targeted and assured in his perception within the Nigerian navy that they’ve what it takes to defeat the insurgents.

We thank God that Mr President immediately has been confirmed proper.

We had been capable of obtain this, largely due to the management of Mr President in offering the wherewithal regularly to the navy and guaranteeing that their preventing morale is sustained by means of welfare packages’’ he mentioned