Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaOver 51, 000 Boko Haram Fighters Surrendered From July 2021-May 2022

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About 51,828 Boko Haram fighters surrendered to the Federal Government between July 2021 and May 2022.

The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor disclosed this in a lecture he delivered at the 7th Founders’ Day of the Edo University, Uzairue, Edo state, explained that 13,360 of those who surrendered were fighters.

The lecture was titled “National Defence Policy and the Transitional Justice Approach in the War Against Insurgency in Nigeria”.

According to him,  “From July 2021 to May 2022 alone, no fewer than 51,828 Boko Haram and their family members have surrendered, out of which 13,360 are fighters.”

“Also, 1,543 repentant terrorists had graduated from Mallam Sidi camp between 2016 and 2022, while 1,935 have been released from the camp in Bulumkutu.”

He said the military has recorded many successes in the fight against terrorism as terrorists were being decimated and dislodged from their strongholds.

Irabor, however, said despite the modest successes recorded by Operation Safe Corridor in the fight against crime, the program still faced a lot of challenges including the lack of specialized training experts and inadequate physical structure.

Others are inadequate collaboration and coordination, absence of appropriate legislation on reintegration, low agency, and international participation, and an ineffective monitoring system.

He, however, said the train-the-trainers programme and establishment of a special fund for Deradicalisation, Reintegration, and Reorientation (DRR), the establishment of a national commission for DRR, enacting of a DRR Act, building of strategic partnerships and adoption of a whole-of-society approach to monitoring would serve as a solution to the problems.

Earlier, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor, said Gen. Irabor was chosen to speak at the institution’s 7th Founders’ Day for the university community on the role of the Nigerian Army in tackling insurgency in the country.

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)

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