Repentant Boko Haram members return to Nigeria

A number of Boko Haram members and their wives who recently surrendered to troops in Niger Republic have arrived Maiduguri, the Borno State Capital, having laid down arms and surrendered to the Nigerien Government, who contacted the Nigerian Government to take them home..

Penpushing reports that the repentants   were brought back to Nigeria in a military aircraft accompanied by soldiers led by Major General Bamidele Shafa, who is the coordinator of the Federal Government Safe Corridor programme.

The Major General who arrived at Maiduguri airport with the former terrorists said, “We have just delivered 25 persons, comprising men, women, and children. So we have brought them home safely and handed them to the Borno State Government for onward rehabilitation as part of the Operation Safe Corridor de-radicalization programme,” he said.

“We are using this opportunity to encourage those that are still in the bush to come out because the President of the Federal Republic has given them an open arm to drop their weapons and embrace peace.”

Penpushing further reports that, the Borno State Commissioner of Women Affairs, Zuwaira Gambo, received the repentants , adding that the State Government “will provide them with psychosocial support, feed them, clothe them, and give some form of education and skills acquisition.”

The Commissioner disclosed that  a centre had been equipped by the Borno Governor, Babagana Zulum, with skills acquisition tools that will enable them to gain skills “before they are reunited with their families.”