Arrangements have been completed for the deployment of 800 repentant Boko Haram members to Gombe state for rehabilitation and onward integration back into the society. Brigadier General Bamidele Shafa, Coordinator, Operation Safe Corridor, the Federal Government programme for the rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram militants spoke in Gombe when the Director General of National Emergency […]
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Arrangements have been completed for the deployment of 800 repentant Boko Haram members to Gombe state for rehabilitation and onward integration back into the society.
Brigadier General Bamidele Shafa, Coordinator, Operation Safe Corridor, the Federal Government programme for the rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram militants spoke in Gombe when the Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Malam Muhammed Sani Sidi visited the camp on Monday to supply food items.
General Shafa said the operation was not an entirely military as there are 14 other government agencies, and Non-Governmental Organisations involved in it.
He said the operation was humanitarian but being led by the military at the moment because “operations in the north-east of Nigeria are largely handled by the military.”
“I want to believe that as soon as the military operations are wind down, Operation Safe Corridor could be ceded to civil authority which by constitution is supposed to handle such operation,” he added.
He said Operation Safe Corridor is a programmed designed by the Federal Government to de-radicalise, rehabilitate and reintegrate members of Boko Haram who have repented and willingly surrendered their arms.
He said the programme would be conducted in line with the international standards and about 12 different trades and vocations would be taught them while they undergo rehabilitation so that they could be self-reliant by the time the exercise is over.
He said the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) which would avail their facilities training and some NGOs would be on hand to help in for the skills acquisition aspect of the Operation.
Malam Sani Sidi, Director General, NEMA who was at the campsite to present foodstuffs to be used during the rehabilitation said what the Agency presented was enough to last for three months.
He said there were enough foodstuffs in their store to last for atleast on whole year, but that it would be released on quarterly bases.
Some of the food items handed over are: 410 bags of rice, 400 bags of beans, 200 bags of millet, 200 bags of sorghum, 750 cartons of spaghetti, 50 cartons of Maggi cubes and 810 cartons tomato paste..
Others include: 101 Vegetable oil in 20 liter jerry-cans, 101 palm oil in 20 liter jerry-cans, 50 bags of salt, 100 bags of sugar, 420 cartons of milk and 420 cartons of Milo chocolate.
The non food items include: 800 pieces of mattress, 500 hundred pieces of blanket, 500 pieces of nylon mats, 1000 plastic buckets, 1000 plastic spoons, 1000 plastic cups 1000, plastics plates, 1000 plastic pairs of slippers, 2000 men’s wear, 63 cartons of bath soap and 1000 bath towels.
Sidi said the Federal Government through NEMA was ready to provide all the needed support and collaboration in the area of food supplies, to ensure the success of the programme.
The camp Commandant pledged total commitment to the programme’s success as well as to use the items provided for the purpose they were meant for.
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