Prominent Nigerians
and youth groups have expressed mixed feelings over the plan by the Senate to
pass a bill seeking the establishment of a special commission for the
rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram insurgents.
The bill, which
passed its first reading in the Senate on Thursday, was sponsored by Senator
Ibrahim Geidam (APC, Yobe East).
In the bill titled:
“National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and
Integration of Repentant Insurgents in Nigeria Bill,” Geidam, a former governor
of Yobe State, asked the Senate to endorse the agency to, among others,
provide, recreational facilities and fine arts programmes for the repentant
insurgents. He argued that the commission would maintain open lines of
communication to gain a greater understanding of both the immediate needs for
combating Boko Hararn as well as a tool for counter-radicalisation in the
future.” |||READ
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