Olayomi Koiki

BORNO, Nigeria – The 8th batch of the re-integration of low risk and minors of 560 repentant Boko Haram terrorists have commenced training in Maiduguri, Borno State, North-East Nigeria, a military senior man in the terror-ravaged north-eastern Borno State said.

The essence of the training is said “to prepare them for life after camp”. The re-integration training will be on between 6 and 9 months.

Brigadier General Abdullah Ishaq retired, who is the Borno State Special Adviser on Security Affairs, said the trainees will be introduced to trades on different skills, before they are finally taken back to their respective communities.

According to Ishaq, they will be receiving lectures for 2 weeks from academicians, the police, the National Orientation Agency, religious leaders and other relevant sectors of the society. They will also receive Starter packs at the end of the programme, before being returned to their communities who had screened them for the training.

General Ishaq said: “This is the 8th batch, we have earlier done 1st-7th of which gave us 7,930 plus this number we have 560 that will be leaving by next week. Out of the 7,930, we have not received any negative report from anybody.

“My message has always been, as soon as they get back to the community, they should be involved in whatever activities the community is doing, be it Naming Ceremonies, Burials, Jumat prayers, they should all work together.”

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters, Abuja, had said in January that at least 1,935 repentant Boko Haram terrorists were released from the Bulumkutu camp in Borno State back into the Nigerian society between 2016 and 2022 after undergoing deradicalisation.

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