Boko Haram: 22 Trained Female Bombers Deradicalised – NSA

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Boko Haram: 22 Trained Female Bombers Deradicalised – NSA

The office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) yesterday told President Muhammadu Buhari, that no fewer than 22 women and girls, recruited as suicide bombers by the Boko Haram sect and another 47 former sect members were now undergoing rehabilitation after voluntarily embracing a de-radicalization programme of the office under the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programme.


According to a statement by presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, one of the objectives of the CVE is to reform terrorists and prevent others from joining terrorist organisations and violent sects.


Briefing the president on the work of the CVE department of the office of NSA at the presidential villa, Abuja, head of the CVE, Dr Fatima Akilu, noted that its non-military approach was running concurrently with the armed onslaught against insurgents in the country.


Akilu added that so far, the CVE has rehabilitated no fewer than 305 victims of terrorism rescued from the Sambisa Forest by the Nigerian military.


She told the president that a National Security Corridor Programme (NSCP)has been created to provide a safe route for those who wished to leave Boko Haram voluntarily.


Responding, President Buhari, applauded steps being taken by the NSA office and other agencies of government to rehabilitate victims of terrorism and violent extremism in Nigeria.


He said that the federal government would continue to do its best to ensure that victims of Boko Haram’s atrocities got necessary support, even as he said that the administration would continue to strive to rid the country of terrorism and insurgency in the shortest possible time.


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