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The United States Government says it is assisting Nigeria in rehabilitating repentant terrorists as part of a broader t Nigeria and US strategy to counter violent extremism.

The US Embassy to Nigeria said this in response to an email by Saturday PUNCH on Friday. It said it was assisting Nigeria through the International Organisation for Migration.

The email read in part, “The US government assists the Government of Nigeria’s Disarmament, Demobilisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme through the International Organisation for Migration – which s Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor programme to carry out DDRR of repentant and eligible ex-combatants who were formerly d with a terrorist organisation.”

It said the 601 repentant terrorists who recently graduated from Operation Safe Corridor in Gombe State had not yet been re-integrated into society.The US said the repentant terrorists would be reintegrated in batches in the near future.

The email further read, “According to our understanding, 601 individuals who were formerly d with a terrorist organisation recently graduated from Operation Safe Corridor last month following successful completion of the de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programme in Gombe Camp.

“We understand that these men have not been released to communities yet and are still awaiting transfer to a rehabilitation centre in Maiduguri. They are to be transferred in batches in the very near future.

“The United States has ed Nigeria’s efforts toward effective disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration of former s as an important element of the broader t Nigerian and US strategy to counter violent extremism.”

A large section of Nigerians had condemned the plan of the Federal Govt to reintegrate repentant terrorists into society while millions of victims of terrorism remain displaced.The Borno State Commissioner for Informat-ion, Babakura Jatau, had told Sunday PUNCH in July that only about 10 per cent of the repentant terrorists were actually fighters while the rest were either children or accomplices.

Meanwhile, rights group, Amnesty International, says the US Government has continued to sell weapons to Nigeria despite the rights abuses being perpetrated by the Nigerian military.The Deputy Director for Advocacy and Government Relations for Amnesty International USA, Adotei Akwei, said this in an email interview with The PUNCH.

In January 2019, Akwei had written a letter to the foreign relations committees in the US Congress calling for the implementation of the Leahy Law in Nigeria due to the high number of human rights abuses by the Nigerian military.

The Leahy Law is an American human rights law that prohibits the US Department of State and Department of Defence from providing military assistance to foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity.

However, Akwei told The PUNCH that one year after Amnesty wrote the letter, that the US authorities had continued to sell weapons to Nigeria in contravention of the Leahy Law.He said the government of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), had failed to address human rights violations.

Responding to a question, he said, “The short answer is no, we have not seen the Buhari government implement any form of credible ability for human rights violations committed by the Nigerian security forces since we sent our letter and we have not seen the USG (US Government) take the necessary action of enforcing the Leahy Law in response to the continued impunity being enjoyed by the Nigerian security forces.”

Akwei had in a letter signed on behalf of Amnesty said the Nigerian military was fond of attacking unarmed civilians.

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America s it.

America that I know can't cure a foolish govt. The USA will rather watch the Nigerian govt proceed with it's stupidity, but let it not cross over to affecting them or their allies. Since Nigeria wants to self destruct, they will help us achieve it faster. Las las they will sell and test their new weapons on the soil of foolish countries.

Hypocr...

Can this really be true? How many terrorists have the US deradicalized & rehabilitated on its soil? Why is the US still running Guantanamo Bay even against all the opposition from the UN and other world bodies given the alleged atrocities going on therein? So why are they helping to rehabilitate terrorists in Nigeria? More questions than answers.

Golan007:
America s it.

That America s it doesn't mean our government shouldn't have common sense to know what is best for it's fragile society. When the snake continues to bite and kill, it wont touch Americans.

IPOB yoots will not be happy with this news

After helping Nigeria to rehabilitate the terrorists, the US should transfer them to their country

NgeneUkwenu:
IPOB yoots will not be happy with this news

Of course IPOB are not happy with terrorists or with a govt that pamper them affectionately as you do, but they were proscribed by the government as terrorists while BH/fulani the real terrorists even confirmed by global terrorism index(GTI) are peacemakers.Well, enjoy your union with them while it lasts.

Meanwhile, these were the terrorists sympathizers long before they were unveiled.Imagine Lai Mohammed saying the proscription of BH terrorists by the then govt is a violation of their fundamental human rights.

Today they're giving same terrorists that have killed with impunity amnesty, foreign education and executive privileges.While the peaceful citizens are being oppressed by the same government.

Bewildered is an understatement to how I feel reading this.

tungamaje:
After helping Nigeria to rehabilitate the terrorists, the US should transfer them to their country

Well said sir.Even Borno people rejected them out rightly. “The reaction of the people of that community was as expected — a total rejection and condemnation of the authorities who released them back to the community....

Therefore, the government should integrate them into government houses and the villa but not our society..."
https://www.thecable.ng/take-them-to-govt-house-or-aso-rock-borno-residents-reject-reintegration-of-ex-boko-haram-fighters/amp

US should also help in rehabilitating their victims in various IDP camps living in squalors.

There's no need reintegrating them into communities, why not clear a portion of Sambisa and help them create their own community.

Racoon:


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Sai Mama

Cc lzaa bambambiglo

D govt is freeing repentant boko haram terrorists under the cover of dis program ed by the US.. Govt have told us dey had already freed and reintegrated some terrorists back into the society but here d US claims the are yet to b integrated back to the society.. Who exactly has d govt been releasing back into the society?

Racoon:
Can this really be true? How many terrorists have the US deradicalized & rehabilitated on its soil?
So why are they helping to rehabilitate terrorists in Nigeria? More questions than answers.

In every war, there are always profiteers.
The US of A is simply cashing out on the unwise decisions of Nigerian leaders.

If you think the Nigeria-America bilateral relationship is about helping Nigeria then you are very foolish. America is strictly in the business of furthering American interests and nothing more.

Not only do we employ military power, we use diplomatic, financial, intelligence, and law enforcement activities to protect the Homeland and extend our defenses, disrupt terrorist operations, and deprive our enemies of what they need to operate and survive.

The above statement is America's strategic policy on terrorism. Nowhere is it written that they reintegrate terrorists back into their society.

The fact that America s the reintegration of Nigerian terrorists into Nigerian society does not make it a good idea.
Ask yourself this question; "why will America a policy that is not ed in their own country?"
You know the answer.

There is a saying that: "the strong controls the weak while the wise controls the strong."

Racoon:


Meanwhile, rights group, Amnesty International, says the US Government has continued to sell weapons to Nigerian Government despite the right abuses being perpetrated by the Nigerian military.

The Leahy Law is an American human rights law that prohibits the US Department of State and Department of Defence from providing military assistance to foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity.

However, Akwei told The PUNCH that one year after Amnesty wrote the letter, that the US authorities
had continued to sell weapons to Nigeria in contravention of the Leahy Law.

Alhaji Lie Mohammed said, the foreign countries are not selling weapons to them while Femi Adesina claimed, "Nigerian military does not lack weapons."

The greed of Nigerian leaders will keep on limiting the country's growth.

SmartProf:
America that I know can't cure a foolish govt. The USA will rather watch the Nigerian govt proceed with it's stupidity, but let it not cross over to affecting them or their allies. Since Nigeria wants to self destruct, they will help us achieve it faster. Las las they will sell and test their new weapons on the soil of foolish countries.

Whatever makes you sleep at night

The same Mazi Donaldchukwu Trump that ipobians told us will soon help them achieve their Biafla!

Noted...

If truly d American want us to take them seriously such rehabilitated terrorists should under a one year IT in dia country

why-were-helping-nigeria-rehabilitate-repentant-terrorists

OBAMA SENT KERRY TO SOKOTO INSTEAD OF ABUJA THAT'S TO SAY THE US IS REPENTING HER INVOLVEMENT IN THE SINISTER PLOT OF BOKOHARAMS, CHIBOX AND DAPCHI GIRLS.

All these are global politics the developed nations are using to lording it over the weak ones while claiming to help them, but in actual fact setting them on a self destruction course....
No American foreign policy s the rehabilitation of terrorists.

Golan007:
America s it.

But that didnt makes it a good policy of government.For goodness sake it's difficult to deradicalized a brainwashed terrorist.Nigeria's own is a case study.

Racoon:
But that didnt makes it a good policy of government.For goodness sake it's difficult to deradicalized a brainwashed terrorist.Nigeria's case is a case study.

I guess the Americans are dumb then.

All of them involved.

The US is helping and paying the Kurds to run prisons where ISIS are detained in Syria and preventing US and UK citizens who went to fight in Iraq and Syria from returning home.
Guantanamo Bay detention centre is still running despite all the claims of human rights abuses by right groups and UN.
It's like US wants Nigeria to sink further into the abyss, ing rehabilitation of terrorists, reducing the quantity of oil they purchase from us, selling us junk Super Tucano hey fighters to fight Boko Haram while selling F-16 fighters to other allies, preventing previous istration from buying weapons to stem the expansion of BH for political reasons.
Obama started this nonsense and Trump is looking towards Nigeria as he fights for his re-election

Meanwhile, IPOB were shot dead for holding a peaceful prayer meeting today by our trigger happy policemen and many are celebrating the killing while cheering the rehab of the real terrorists

God help us!