One of the repentant Boko Haram members who was given amnesty by President Muhammadu Buhari, has reportedly killed his father and ran away with his cow.
This information was disclosed by the senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Senator Ali Ndume, during an interview with Channels Television.
“Those that have been radicalised and released into the community, there is no monitoring device, and most of them that are back, I can give an example in Damboa,
“One of them only came back to kill his father and take away his cows and ran away with it.
“Some of them that returned to Damboa, after two, three days, they disappeared. I learnt reliably that even in the course of de-radicalisation, they said they are not willing to come to live with the infidels.
“This programme really needs to be looked into immediately. I am gathering information and position of my people and even go legal.”
Ndume said the programme is a misplaced priority, arguing that the victims should have been the one rehabilitated instead of the villains.
“This is a situation where we still have over one million internally displaced persons in various camps and host communities and they are still dealing with the trauma of the insurgency and the government is doing this Operation Safe Corridor bringing in those people that tortured, killed and maimed. The memories are still fresh in our mind.
“Almost all the people are against this programme.
Why don’t you rehabilitate, resettle the people that are dealing with the trauma and give them startup pack to start their lives in any part of the country?
“We have IDPs scattered all over the country. If the government is serious about a programme like this, it should start with the victims first, not the perpetrators,” Ndume said.
Former senator representing Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, likened the amnesty programme for repentant Boko Haram members to making friendship with a snake.
“A repentant Insurgent is like a domesticated viper,” he said via his twitter handle.
