6,900 deradicalize insurgents have been reintegrated – Borno Govt
No fewer than 100,000 Boko Haram insurgents have so far voluntarily surrendered and 6,900 have undergone all screening exercises of disarmament, demobilization and deradicalization as well as rehabilitation, reconciliation and reintegration processes of the Borno Model.
The Special Adviser on Security Affairs to Governor Babagana Zulum, General Abdullah Sabi M. Ishaq (rtd) stated this during the ongoing screening exercises of the repentant insurgents in Maiduguri.
According to him, the 6,900 reintegrated repentant terrorists were reunited with their families and loved ones smoothly through the designed processes of Triple D and Triple R of the Borno Model in collaboration with all the stakeholders beginning with the military and other security agencies in the state down to the humanitarian and development partners, state government, Local Government Councils, religious and community leaders among others.
He added that the 6,900 so far reintegrated back to their communities were in six (6) batches – first batch 500, second batch 1000, third batch 1000, fourth batch 1000, fifth batch 1,300 and sixth batch 2,100, making a total of 6,900 while the seventh batch is in progress.
General Ishaq explained that the government has never received any complaint from any community or individual regarding the reintegrated persons, stressing that, rather we have been receiving reports and appreciation from some of them that they got married while others opened petty business and trading as well as returned to full farming occupation and doing well.
” This is a credit to the security agencies and the state government as well as the traditional institutions including our collaborating humanitarian and development partners which without their support, efforts, assistance and understanding we wouldn’t have been where we are today.
The Special Adviser, further, said that over 90% of the die hard ideologist are dead as a result of military actions while 85% of them were under aged and forcefully conscripted by the groups which informed the massive voluntary surrendering of most of the members of the groups associated with arms and high number of repentance couple with the reality on ground of the introduced Borno Model.
