The chairman Senate committee on Army, Ali Ndume has kicked against a newly introduced bill set to create an agency for repentant insurgents.
The Lawmaker representing Borno south in the national assembly, made his view known over the bill in an interview with Channels Television.
According to Ndume, the bill is out rightly unacceptable and his position on it, he said is known by his colleagues.
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.”
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.”
The Boko Haram Bill is aimed at creating a national agency that would see to the rehabilitation, de-radicalisation, and integration of repentant insurgents in the country.
It was listed on the Senate order paper on Thursday for the first reading and was sponsored by Senator Ibrahim Gaidam and captioned ‘National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of repentant insurgents in Nigeria (Est, etc) Bill, 2020 (SB. 340)’.
Senator Gaidam, the immediate past governor of Yobe State, is representing Yobe East District in the Senate.
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