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No fewer than 390 repentant Boko Haram graduated from the Federal Government’s De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme in Gombe State.

The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, said this during the graduation in Malam Sidi in the Kwami Local Government Area of Gombe State on Thursday.

He said that the graduating clients arrived at the camp in July 2024 and went through various rebuilding activities of the programme, which reshaped them and made them ready for reintegration into society.

Represented by Maj.-Gen. Sunday Makollo, Musa said that the non-kinetic approach by the Federal Government is positively impacting military operations in the Northeast.

He restated the Army’s commitment toward tackling security challenges in the country and ensuring peace and security.

He urged the clients to be agents of peace in their respective communities, while warning them against violating the oath they took and their allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

On his part, the Commandant of the DRR Camp, Operation Safe Corridor, Col. Abiodun Johnson, said that the clients comprised six foreigners and 384 Nigerians who had been rehabilitated and were ready for reintegration.

Johnson said, “A further breakdown of the 390 clients shows 13 clients hailed from Adamawa, one from Akwa-Ibom, 19 from Bauchi State, 218 from Borno, one from Cross River, one from Edo, five from Gombe, five from Jigawa.

“Others are 15 from Kaduna State, 14 from Kano State, seven from Katsina State, three from Kebbi and five from Kogi, two from Nasarawa, five from Niger, one from Osun, two from Oyo.

“Four from Plateau, five from Sokoto State, three from Taraba, 47 from Yobe and eight from Zamfara.

“The foreign clients include one from Cameroon, one from Chad and four from Niger Republic.

“Similarly, six clients are Christians and 384 are Muslims. This information is essential for management planning and the reintegration process.”

He explained that during the DRR programme, the clients were trained in various skills of their choice, ranging from welding, tailoring, carpentry, bakery, laundry and electrical repairs, among others.

He said that the training was to quicken their reintegration into society and discourage them from going back to crimes.

The camp commandant said that the clients had confessed their past, denounced their hip of the insurgent group and swore an oath of allegiance to be loyal, obedient and responsible citizens.

The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mrs Zubaida Umar, said the Federal Government is committed to addressing insecurity in the country.

Umar commended the resilience of the armed forces for using kinetic and non-kinetic approaches in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism in the country.

She lauded President Bola Tinubu for the political will and for approving the expansion of OPSC to cover the six geo-political zones, especially with the inclusion of the North-West and the establishment of the DRR camp in Zamfara State.

Umar, represented by NEMA’s Director of Search and Rescue, Air Cdr. Abang Oyong, donated food and non-food items to the clients.

According to her, the items will help to stabilise them after the DRR programme and enable their seamless reintegration into society.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that each of the clients got a starter pack according to their area of training and N50,000.

The items donated include 400 bags of rice (25kg), 400 bags of maize (25kg), 400 bottles of vegetable oil, 40 cartons of seasoning, and 40 cartons of tomato paste.

Others are 20 bags of iodised salt, 400 pieces of bath towels, 800 pieces of plastic plates, and 800 pieces of plastic spoons.

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Terrorist are pardoned and de-radicalize in the North. They are sent to prison or killed in the south. Same country with different laws.

Una Dey pardon terrorist? hope una Dey reward their victims ?

I seriously thought this type of thing will end with their brother Buhari, but here we are, 2 years into Tinubu, this type of thing only happens in Nigeria.

A terrorist will always be a terrorist!

The only way to permanently 'de-radicalize' them is to send them to their 70 virgins.

Hehehe.
See country we dey pray make bandits stop. Stupid southerners and middle belterners who refuse to listen goes to church praying for insecurity to stop while the people causing it continue to do the real deal.

Choi. And you say I should hate MNK? And you say I should not call the country a zoo. Ok nah

Chai this country is truly Mad. The military caught terrorist who must have killed some of their colleagues. Then the government spend money which she could have given to the military as a well done reward , to train the terrorist who after few days return to the forest refreshed to start their work of terrorizing and killing more Military and civilian . Mehn Nigeria is truly a Zoo, a shithole Country

A wrong move... Rehabilitation or Deradicalisation in Nigeria doesn't work. The success rate is low. I actually do not know who recommend these programmes/policy.

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Keep on recycling killers even in the hear of this ongoing insecurity

My father would always tell me then that the worst lie you can ever tell, is the one you tell yourself. Everyone knows what will happen next. Dont we? I mean these over pampered killers will either Al malkurah, abi Al abracadabra, or ISIS and kwantiniu with the slaughtering..

I have never seen any place in the world where matured men intentionally make decisions that will lead to their demise or the destruction of their communities, just to spite other men.
What kind of "deradicalisation" program guarantees the good conduct of these proven terrorists going forward?

Everyone involved knows that this is not going to work. And the reason they keep arresting and killing more boko haram fighters even after all these arrests and surrenders, is because the government has always found a convenient excuse like this to release the killers back to the communities..

Meanwhile they are all shooting IPOB and ESN at sight in the East.

Tinubu dare not offend his masters, else why this?
This same terrorist that brutally slaughter soldiers on record, this evil people that has been ruining lives, sacking villages and murdering people like chicken?

So all it takes to be taken back is to say you have repented and Al their sins will be forgiven?

These are the people they want.more Easterners to the army to combat?

Smh

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I seriously thought this type of thing will end with their brother Buhari, but here we are, 2 years into Tinubu, this type of thing only happens in Nigeria.

A terrorist will always be a terrorist!

The only way to permanently 'de-radicalize' them is to send them to their 70 virgins.

I can't find a better way of saying it: A TERRORIST WILL ALWAYS BE A TERRORIST!

Besides, someone that gulped tons of indoctrination and radicalization cannot just be rehabilitated and ready for reintegration in like 10 months. It doesn't make sense.

Escape from Prosecution and Culpability to MURDER

Perfectly put together by BUHARI the Chief Terrorist of Nigeria 👏

Very good. Now go on and increase the killings. It’s a good population control strategy. If you think Tinubu is moved, then you have gotten it wrong, Tinubu or any Yoruba man for that matter will never be concerned that you are killing yourselves in multitude

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These guys should be put away for life! Sometimes I wonder if we are all humans in this country. Imagine those guys that carried out the heinous act at Uromi recently graduating from de-radicalisation in the next few months and released into the Nigerian military or the society

What I will say to state governors and sane Regional leaders is to put politics aside and wipe out wild animals masquerading as humans from their forests. If you continue to play politics with these happenings, your children would become slaves tomorrow at best, and worse case scenarios, they will have no place to call home.

I wonder why these people don't understand that many of these guys have reached points of no return, they are no longer sane or aligned with reality. People that slaughtered people without a cause while shouting the name of a demon from hell that they do not understand.

De - radicalisation is the northern equivalent of Amnesty program for Niger Delta militants.
Hence the statement by Gumi that they are businessmen.

SpecialAdviser:
Hehehe.
See country we dey pray make bandits stop. Stupid southerners and middle belterners who refuse to listen goes to church praying for insecurity to stop while the people causing it continue to do the real deal.

Choi. And you say I should hate MNK? And you say I should not call the country a zoo. Ok nah

You can KANU in Kuje prison

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Seun


Rule 2

pussy boy yea cry to your daddy

SpecialAdviser:
Hehehe.
See country we dey pray make bandits stop. Stupid southerners and middle belterners who refuse to listen goes to church praying for insecurity to stop while the people causing it continue to do the real deal.

Choi. And you say I should hate MNK? And you say I should not call the country a zoo. Ok nah

Leave matter o...
MNK is not the messiah we seek in southeast. He's even a worse disaster than whatever we're having right now

Lying bastards..... Let them stay in that gombe.... Cuz it's time we start using the language they know best

Congratulations. The people you kpai and Smexually assaulted have forgiven you. Nigeria na joke I swear

And back to business as usual

Northerners are daft and backward using Nigeria resources to finance terrorism ,next military recruitment, they will enlisted and send to the South.

Terrorrists brain washed by religious doctrines don't change. It's only makes them harder. Kill them, it is the only way

Our leaders will never encourage the creation of state/community police. All this different terrorist organisation will one day lead to an chaotic society with so many of them acting like Lords

COAS should just send them to fight their Boko/Iswap brothers. But to think of it, this is what the youths need, jobs to be engaged. Government don't care about you, our leaders simply don't know what to do when they get to power

Dem go soon their fellow idiots back.

No sympathy for terrorists!!!

One do not need to be adept in forensic psychology to know the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of those terrorist is like trying to store water in a basket.

What happens to the families of their victims, those forced to live in IDP camps?

The officials of the Nigerian government and the top bosses in the army continue to accumulate wealth through "fighting" terrorism.

A terrorist brain is already messed up, let them continue with the deceit.

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Benefits of Muslim Muslim ticket.
Boko carry go joor. You worked hard for this.
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I am very disappointed in Tinubu for continuing this.

If Tinubu will not achieve anything in his tenure, let him just try and create State police b4 leaving. If this guys has the gut to be causing havoc Nationwide when a Southern president is there, how will it be when a northern that is an extremist is there?

We are afraid the Governors may abuse power with it but I don't think it can be as bad as the current Federal police abuse of power we are witnessing.

If 40% of people in my town a police officers in my town, they can't just misbehave anyhow because you can run back yard package for them if they misbehave. They will thread carefully as they will fear for their life and that of their family especially in this era people are extremely heartless

Time to be freed and go back to the forest for another round of fighting against the military men who have died to get them arrested and surrendered in the first place. This is regurgitation of terrorism! Stop it!

Bizness as usual