Surrendered Boko Haram members should be taken back to their communities – Senate President

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan said on Monday that the reports that Boko Haram elements are coming out of their trenches to surrender to Nigerian troops should be encouraged and surrendered members should be reintegrated to their communities.

Lawan stated this in Maiduguri, Borno State at the Palace of Shehu of Borno, Abubakar El-Kanemi during his condolence visit to the Monarch who lost his elder brother and to the family of former Foreign Affairs minister, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe over the death of his mother-In-Law.
He stated that recent surrender by Boko Haram terrorist is a good development for the security architecture of the nation adding that government would ensure that those received are appropriately processed.

He said: “Those that have no issues to answer are sanitised and taking back to their communities. Those that may have issues to answer should be taken through the legal proceses but we must ensure that we encourage Boko Haram elements and those they have taken by force to come out to surrender so that this unnecessary insurgency placed on us comes to an end.”

In a statement signed by Ola Awoniy, Special Adviser(Media) to President of the Senate, stressed that there is no need for controversy over what is needed to be done with people who surrendered.
“In any war, in every war, surrender is the ultimate and if we can achieve it, we should do everything and anything possible to encourage more and more to come out so that we are able to come to the end of this unnecessary insurgency that has taken our States back for so many years in term of development.

The Senate President and Yobe Governor were both accompanied on the trip by Senator Sadiq Umar Suleiman, Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Dr. Babagana M. Aji, Permanent Secretary(Yobe State), Ambassador Zanna Aliyu Ibrahim and Ambassador Babagana Ajimi who is the Chairman, Board of Directors, Federal Neuro Psychiatry Hospital, Kaduna.

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