The Nigerian government has graduated 559 former Boko Haram fighters in its rehabilitation programme.
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari in September 2015 established the Operation Safe Corridor to encourage willing and repentant Boko Haram members to surrender and go through a well-structured rehabilitation and deradicalisation and reintegration programmes.
The programmed tagged de-radicalisation, rehabilitation and reintegration (DRR) programme has graduated over 1000 former Boko Haram members who graduated from the programme since 2015, according to its cordinator Joseph Maina.
The programme commenced in 2016 by a committee constituted by the chief of defence staff to operationalise the mandate of President Buhari.
At a graduation ceremony held in Gombe State on Sunday, the repentant terrorists were made to swear an oath of allegiance to the to the Nigerian government.
Maina said the graduating class arrived at the DRR camp between July 15 and September 6, 2021.
The DRR cordinator said the repentant fighters went through various rebuilding activities of the programme which includes medical screening, psychological and psychospiritual counselling, sports therapy, drug abuse counselling, western education and vocational training.
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