The Spokesperson for the Coalition of Northern Groups, Suleiman Abdul-Azeez, has condemned the Federal Government’s rehabilitation program for Boko Haram terrorists.
Speaking during a live interview with The Punch on Thursday, Abdul-Azeez that the move to rehabilitate terrorists is grossly misinformed and tactless.
Recall that in 2016, the president Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd) introduced that Operation Safe Corridor (OSC) rehabilitation and reintegration programme as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency measures.
He said: “We see that as misinformed. It is grossly misinformed and tactless because there is no point in even judging someone who has been hardened killer as repentant. What yardstick have they used to assess them as repentant and who has forgiven them? The parents of the people they killed, the communities or who?
“You see that was just a unilateral unproductive decision and it is not going to pay in the end. And then there are laws in the land. You apprehend a suspect, investigate him and prosecute him. It is not for you to say this guy has repented. It is for the court to administer whatever penalty the law provides and when they could not find him guilty, they release him.
“But for a government to just sit in the villa and judge Boko Haram fighters as repentant and set them free and integrate them into the community is a dangerous trend, we really don’t buy into that.”
