Senator Ali Ndume, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, has said that he is disappointed with the President Muhammadu Buhari government for reh
Ndume, who has always seen the government’s deradicalizing of ex-Boko Haram members as a misplacement of priority, insisted that it was wrong for this administration to be resettling and pampering former terrorists while the country is still at war.
“I am in disagreement with the government,” Ndume buttressed.
The lawmaker, who represents Borno South, noted that members of the dreaded terrorist group who are captured during military operations can be kept as prisoners of war and later tried in accordance with the law. Ndume pointed out that the recent “Damboa attack was carried out by a repentant Boko Haram member.”
The lawmaker said that “the repentant Boko Haram member was feeding the terror group information regarding the movement of the army and that led to the death of the Commander of 25 Task Force Brigade in Damboa, Borno State, Col. D.C. Bako, in September this year.
He said that it was unfair to have the government waste its resources on those who threaten the peace of the nation. He declared that granting repentant Boko Haram terrorists amnesty might be counter- productive to the war against terror.
Ndume also noted that the UAE did a good job by jailing those sponsoring Boko Haram, lamenting that the pace of prosecution in Nigeria was too slow.
“We are very grateful to the government of UAE and we are still appealing to our government to bring those directly or indirectly involved in Boko Haram activities to book immediately adding that the magnitude of their atrocities doesn’t qualify them for amnesty.
