Why we can’t shoot repentant insurgents, by FG

The Federal Government, yesterday, cautioned against spewing negative and false narratives around Boko Haram members who are surrendering to the Nigerian military in the insurgency-ravaged North East.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Washington, yesterday, berated those he said were alleging that the surrendered insurgents were not actual Boko Haram fighters and if they were, they should be shot rather than granted amnesty.

He described as “false and demoralising’’ the claim in certain quarters that the surrendered insurgents would be recruited into the Nigerian military.