About 800 Boko Haram members to arrive Gombe for reintegration

 

Coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor for Repentant Boko Haram, Brig.-Gen. Bamidele Shaffa, said on Monday that 800 repentant Boko Haram members would soon arrive Gombe for reintegration.

Speaking during an interactive session with newsmen, Shaffa said that all the necessary arrangements had been put in place to commence operation at the rehabilitation camp.

He said the repentant militants would undergo a de-radicalisation process in the camp, which would prepare them to go back to their various communities.

Shaffa said that about 14 Federal Government agencies including the security personnel would work in the camp.

He said the former militants would be trained in 12 different trades and vocations.

Shaffa said that the National Directorate of Employment would provide all the facilities for the training.

Malam Sani Sidi, Director General, National Emergency Management Agency, said that the agency would provide food and other items for the trainees.

The items donated by NEMA include bags of rice, vegetable oil, mattresses, among other items.