Yusuf Bello| Niger Republic authorities on Wednesday handed over 25 repentant members of the Boko Haram terrorist group to the Nigerian government.
The former insurgents had recently laid down their arms and surrendered to the Nigerien government.
The government of Niger had subsequently reached out to the Nigerian government, asking for their evacuation.
The repentant Boko Haram fighters arrived in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in company of their wives and children, were accompanied to Maiduguri by the Coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, Major General Bamidele Shafa.
The repentant fighters were later handed over to the Borno State government through the Ministry of Women Affairs, for profiling and rehabilitation, by Gen Shafa.
He used the occasion to call on other insurgents still fighting in the forest to take advantage of the Federal Government’s Operation Safe Corridor to drop their arms and give peace a chance.
Bornu state Commissioner for Women Affairs, Zuwaira Gambo, in her remarks, said the state government has equipped a rehabilitation centre where the returnees would have access to psychosocial support and skills acquisition.
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