The Nigerian Senate has introduced a bill to create a federal agency that would take responsibility for the rehabilitation, deradicalisation and integration of repentant Boko Haram members in the country.
The bill which is being sponsored by Senator Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe East senatorial district was read for the first time during plenary on Thursday February 20th.
Last month, the Nigerian military said that about 608 repentant insurgents were undergoing the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme under its Operation Safe Corridor in Malam-Sidi, Gombe State. The programme includes formal literacy classes, skills acquisition and Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK) as well as drug and psychotherapy for the repentant sect members.
Reacting to the bill for the creation of a the federal agency for the repentant terrorists, Femi Fani-Kayode said the action is ‘evil’ and can only happen in a ‘shithole’ country.
He wrote: “A Federal Agency for “repentant” Boko Haram members is to be established?
“An agency for ravenous and merciless beasts that slit open the throats of women and children, behead clerics, abduct and enslave thousands of innocent, defenceless and helpless compatriots and bomb places of worship?
“This can only happen in a “shithole” country and a zoo. It is EVIL.
May God curse every single one of those that put us in this mess in 2015 by bringing these heartless bloodsuckers and monsters to power.
WE WARNED YOU BUT YOU WOULD NOT LISTEN!
(Femi Fani-Kayode)”
