Repentant terrorists accused of serious crimes will still be prosecuted – FG

The Federal Government has launched caller Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to usher its Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme for repentant terrorists, portion stressing that those accused of superior crimes volition inactive beryllium prosecuted.

The procedures were unveiled on Monday during a nationalist validation store successful Abuja. They are expected to amended transparency, accountability and coordination successful the implementation of the DDR programme. The store besides approved state-level SOPs for Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara.

National Coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Adamu Laka, said the guidelines were developed aft wide consultations and were based connected Nigeria’s experience, planetary champion signifier and the country’s information realities.

He explained that the SOPs would intelligibly specify the responsibilities of authorities institutions, fortify practice among agencies, standardise operations and guarantee that the programme respects quality rights and the regularisation of law.

Laka said subject operations unsocial could not bring lasting peace, describing the DDR programme arsenic an important portion of Nigeria’s non-military strategy to tackle insecurity.

He said consultations crossed the six geopolitical zones showed beardown enactment for a nationally coordinated and community-driven DDR framework. According to him, participants identified ...