At least 5,000 Boko Haram terrorists who have repented have been reunited with their families, according to the Office of the National Security Advisor’s National Counter Terrorism Centre.
It claims that following six months of the deradicalization program, none of the former combatants went back to the battlefield.
During the second day of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum, Amb. Mairo Musa Abbas, Head of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE), made this statement.
Speaking at the Third Penal on the topic of “Managing Boko Haram Exits and Demobilization of Armed Groups,” Mairo claimed that a unified approach will assist the governors of the Lake Chad area in resolving their shared problems.
She claimed that more than 5,000 Boko Haram members who had repented had been reintegrated into society through Operation Safe Corridor, a deradicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration program for former Boko Haram combatants.
Over 5,000 former Boko Haram fighters have been deradicalized and reunited with their families as part of the Operation Safe Corridor program.
They are sustaining themselves in the communities by applying the skills they learned throughout the six-month deradicalization program in the camp.
“The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has partners in 774 local governments in Nigeria, as well as traditional and religious leaders in the community. They have a monitoring system that allows them to track their progress following reintegration into the community,” she said.
She went on to say that the federal government’s attempts to foster peace in the nation had been bolstered by the “Borno Model,” a state-led plan that tried to reintegrate people who had left extremist groups like Boko Haram.
“We have recorded a lot of success with the Model because many repentant fighters have been reunited with families,” she continued. “We always said ‘Borno Model’ is a model of necessity.”
However, she urged stakeholders and the governors of the Lake Chad region to coordinate their approach so that they are operating at the same level.
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