In accordance with a presidential directive, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has, this afternoon, inaugurated a national committee to oversee the creation of safe passageway into the mainstream Nigerian society for members of the Boko Haram terrorists. Boko Haram members pencilled for reintegration are those forcefully conscripted into the group and those who have already surrendered and given up their membership of the sect and those willing to renounce their membership.
Members
of the committee comprise relevant federal government agencies involved
in the counterinsurgency operation and representatives of states in the
North East and Jigawa.
The
Committee’s terms of reference include; to identify implementation
partners and establish their responsibilities, to establish a framework
for coordination of implementation agencies, to determine funding
requirements and sources, to identify technical assistance needs and
possible sources, to outline broad information strategies in
collaboration with implementation agencies, to determine location of
assembly areas, encampment sites, IDP Camps as well as safe corridors
and routes, and, finally, to determine the overall security requirements
and concerns in the counterinsurgency operation.
The
Committee which has one month for its assignment will also tackle the
creation of mobile offices, access roads, feeding and medical treatment
for the IDP, skill and vocational training for the IDP, joint media
centres and the establishment of necessary structures and receptive
centres to resettle repentant terrorist members.
So
far, military operations in the contested area have yielded remarkable
successes, following the immediate review of the security forces
strategy, approach and concept of operation designed to neutralize the
operational capabilities of the terrorists and rout them out before the
year’s end.
Several
strongholds, hideouts and camps of the BHT have been cleared and taken
over by our military forces. Many children and women captives of Boko
Haram have been released and currently undergoing rehabilitation process
in the various established internally displaced persons (IDP) Camps.
Already,
to ameliorate the suffering of the IDP, the DHQ and the services have
embarked on aggressive quick impact projects which have significantly
improved their wellness. Notwithstanding all these efforts and
achievements, the intensity and momentum of the ongoing
counterinsurgency operations have not subsided as most of the terrorists
have been decimated through ongoing clearance operations with their
logistics supply routes blocked and lines of communications extended, as
part of the final onslaught to neutralize the Sect completely.
About
315 terrorists members have surrendered and are being detained and
isolated camps to ensure that the terrorists submit to state control.
The current unfavourable situation for the terrorists in the battlefield
has resulted in large number of the insurgents willing to surrender
their arms to embrace peace.
Governors of states of Jigawa and Adamawa were represented at the inauguration ceremony.
Group Captain Wap MAIGIDA
for Acting Director Defence Information
Governors of states of Jigawa and Adamawa were represented at the inauguration ceremony.
Group Captain Wap MAIGIDA
for Acting Director Defence Information
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