FG graduates 744 repentant terrorists under Safe Corridor programme

A full of 744 repentant terrorists person graduated from the Federal Government’s De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Camp nether Operation Safe Corridor.

Most of the participants were from Borno (597), followed by Yobe (58), Kano (15), Bauchi (12), and Adamawa (10), Abia (2), Akwa Ibom (1), Anambra (2), Ebonyi (3), Enugu (1), Katsina (3), Kebbi (1), Kogi (5), Nasarawa (4), Niger (2), Plateau (2), and Sokoto (2).

The radical besides included overseas nationals: 1 each from Burkina Faso and Cameroon, 2 from Chad, and 4 from the Niger Republic.

At the graduation ceremonial held successful Gombe, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede, said the programme is simply a strategical effort to code the basal causes of insurgency, stressing it is not an amnesty but a measurement to trim reoffending and curb extremist recruitment.

“This is not a reward but a deliberate attack to reducing violence, weakening recruitment pipelines, and fostering semipermanent stability,” helium said.

He noted that combining subject operations with rehabilitation is cardinal to achieving lasting peace, urging the graduates to clasp reintegration and shun violence.

The coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, Brigadier General Yusuf Ali, said participants underwent psychosocial support, vocational training, and reorientation programmes to hole them for reintegratio...