By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
No less than 602 Boko Haram members have claimed to have denounced their membership of the dreaded terrorist organization which is responsible for mass murder of Nigerians.
According to the Nigerian government, the ex-terrorists completed a de-radicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration program where they denounced their membership of the dreaded group at the Malam Sidi Camp in Kwami Local Government Area of Gombe State.
A News Agency of Nigeria report said the repentant terrorists denounced their membership of Boko Haram before an 11-man Quasi-Judicial Panel headed by Justice Nehizena Afolabi, of the Federal High Court, Gombe.
Maj.-Gen. Bamidele Shafa, the Coordinator, Operation Safe Corridor, said the appearance of the repentant insurgents before the judicial panel was a major requirement before their reintegration into the society.
“The panel is for the clients to appear before it to confess their pasts and denounce their membership of Boko Haram, Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) as the case may be.
“And swear Oath of Allegiance to be loyal, disciplined and obedient citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and then make a commitment. The commitment is that at the end of the programme, where they commit any offence, they stand to forfeit all privileges that they have acquired today and will be liable for an offence against the State.”
