Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has again faulted the move by the Federal rehabilitate and reintegrate repentant Boko Haram members.
For him, that is a clear case of misplacement of priorities by the government.
Channels TV reports that Ndume spoke on Wednesday at the closed-door budget defence session with the Nigerian Army.
Ndume who has always been of the opinion that deradicalizing Ex-Boko Haram Members is a misplacement of priority stressed that
According to him, the Federal Government cannot be resettling and pampering former terrorists while the country is still at war.
“I am in disagreement with the government,” Ndume buttressed.
He believes that the right to be done is to Boko Haram members who are apprehended as prisoners of war and at a due time prifike them and try them by the provision of the country’s laws.
In buttressing his losition, the said that the recent terrorist attack in Damboa was orchestrated by a repentant Boko Haram member.
He said a ‘repentant Boko Haram member’ that was feeding the terror group information regarding the movement of the army.
It is not right to have the government lavish its resources on those who threaten the peace of the nation, he said
Ndume has been consistent in his opposition to the approach of the Federal Government to the repentant insurgents.
He vehemently opposed the bill aimed at creating an agency for repentant insurgents, insisting then as now that it is a misplacement of priorities.
He said, “I personally disagree with that. The war is not over and some criminals that have been killing people you say that you are doing Operation Safe Corridor for them.
“I am completely against that idea. They know my position on that, you can’t do that.
“It is when you win the war and some people surrender that you think about something like that,” Ndume said on the floor of the Senate where the bill was read for the first time.
He added that the idea of the bill will only make Boko Haram have more recruits since they are sure of rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
“You are just telling people to go and join Boko Haram and then repent and become something (sic) that’s a totally unacceptable idea and a way of solving the problem.”
