800 REPENTANT BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS GET SUPPLY FROM FG
The Federal Government of Nigeria has presented food and non-food items to the military for onward distribution to 800 repented Boko Haram terrorists. The government had instituted a Programme tagged: "Operation Safe Corridor" to de-radicalize, rehabilitate and re-integrate repentant terrorists as part of measures to fast track peace process in the North east. The spokesman of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sani Datti, said in a statement on Tuesday that the items were presented to the military by the Agency's Director General, Muhammad Sani Sidi in Gombe. He quoted the NEMA boss as saying that “The initiative, which is in line with international best practices allowed those engaged in the fighting to voluntarily surrender and embrace peace so that they undergo rehabilitation’’. He said NEMA would play its role in the programme by providing regular support of food and non-food items for the repentant terroris...