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| We’re not granting amnesty to Boko Haram members -- DHQ |
| 2016-05-11 |
| [PUNCHNG] The Defence Headquarters had condemned online reports that 800 Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... members had been granted amnesty. It said the story was false and called on the public to disregard it, stressing that it would not tolerate acts of terrorism or criminality by any group. According to the DHQ, the decision to rehabilitate repentant members of Boko Haram is based on a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... convention and could not be considered as amnesty. A statement by the Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, in response to the report, read, "The attention of Defence Headquarters has been drawn to online Media stating that 800 Boko Haram Terrorists were given Amnesty. The story is false and has no iota of truth in it as DHQ has never mentioned Amnesty in all its statement. "In line with United Nations convention Charter, which Nigeria is a signatory, The Defence Headquarters came up with an initiative "Öperation Safe Corridor", this initiative is geared towards rehabilitating and reintegrating the repentant gunnies back into normal life in the society. "Therefore, the general public should disregard these insinuations as the initiative "Operation Safe Corridor" should not be taken as Amnesty." "We hereby emphasise and stand our position that no act of Terrorism or Criminality will be condoned in our nation by any group. Please be guided." FG trains 800 repented Boko Haram members [Daily Post.ng] No fewer than 800 repented members of the Boko Haram sect are currently undergoing various trainings at the moment, the Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Alhaji Mohammed Sidi said on Monday. The NEMA DG, who made this disclosure at a two-day Public Hearing on the North East Development Commission Bill, 2016 said that the skill acquisition exercise was being handled by the military and monitored by the Office of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). Sidi, who was responding to the comment of a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Kaka Kyari Gujbawu, who canvassed general amnesty for returning Boko Haram insurgents, said, “It is not true that the Federal Government has no amnesty package. There is what is called safe corridor.” “I do know that 800 plus (Boko Haram) have been registered. I don’t want to be specific. They have exited Boko Haram through the window. They are currently receiving various skill acquisition training. The military is handling it. It is being monitored by the Office of the CDS,” he added. |
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