Foundation cautions FG on Boko Haram
A non-governmental organization, the CUG Foundation, has called on the Federal government to re-examine its policy of reintegrating former Boko haram fighters into the society after a few weeks or months of de radicalization.
In a statement signed by retired AIG, Dr. Charles Ugomuoh, chairman, Board of Trustees of the foundation, the organization said that many of the de radicalized BOKO HARAM fighters hardly renounce their allegiance to the insurgency group.
According to AIG Charles Ugomuoh,”The Federal government must realize that Boko Haram is sustained by religious justification and indoctrination. It is a situation that creates a die-hard allegiance which few weeks or months of de radicalization cannot wipe out”
The foundation, therefore, called on the Federal government to be more circumspect in reintegrating the so-called deradicalized Boko Haram elements into the society.
It said that these former Boko Haram fighters could be responsible for providing information to their colleagues in the rising cases of ambush and killing of troops, high profile bank robbery, and kidnapping for ransom.
The CUG Foundation also called on the leadership of the Nigerian security agencies to develop more collaboration and cooperation in their operations and share intelligence in a sense of common purpose. It said that the military must drop its sense of superiority which is a carry-over from the era of military dictatorship which undermines the collective at fighting insurgency and other forms of criminality.
The CUG Foundation called on the authorities to ensure that troops in the theater of operations are adequately provided for in terms of arms and ammunition and in their welfare.
