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Borno engages monarchs on re-integration of repentant terrorists

By  Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri
22 February 2024   |   4:07 am
Borno State government has engaged traditional rulers to implement the Borno Model on the de-radicalisation and re-integration of repentant Boko Haram fighters and their families into the society.
Boko haram terrorist
Boko Haram terrorists

Borno State government has engaged traditional rulers to implement the Borno Model on the de-radicalisation and re-integration of repentant Boko Haram fighters and their families into the society.

  
Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Prof. Usman Tar, unveiled the role of traditional rulers, yesterday, in Maiduguri, at a town hall meeting organised by Peace Ambassadors Centre for Humanitarian Aid and Empowerment (PACHE), in partnership with the British Council.
 
 He disclosed: “They are to be engaged with their inputs on security infrastructure from the constructive discussions on restorative justice through building of schools and houses for victims of insurgency.”
  
According to him, the Borno Model is a kinetic approach aimed at handling counter-terrorism efforts in addressing humanitarian crisis in the state and North East.
  
He said the meeting with traditional rulers was on reintegration and sustainable peace in Borno, noting that it would enable the state government look inwards and consult widely with traditional rulers.
  
“The implementation of the Borno Model will be a bottom-up approach,” he said. The town hall meeting with the theme, ‘Youths Initiatives for Reintegration and Sustainable Peace’, was to engage and empower traditional rulers in peace-building for re-integration of repentant Boko Haram terrorists and their families.
  
Programme Officer of PACHE, Yazid Usman, in a paper entitled ‘Youths Initiative for Reintegration and Sustainable Peace in Borno, Nigeria’, said the meeting was to enhance the capacity of youth activists to foster disengagement and de-radicalisation of persons associated with violent extremism.
  
He added that the resilience of young ones could reduce their vulnerability to the context of reintegration and peace-building. Usman said: “It will foster dialogue and reconciliation that are crucial to sustainable peace across the state.
  
“Learning opportunities could also be provided through further education of the reintegrated repentant insurgents and their families.”

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