The Nigerian Army has cleared and handed over 760 Boko Haram
suspects arrested by soldiers during a crackdown on insurgents in North-East
Nigeria to the Borno State Government for rehabilitation and reintegration.
This was made known through a statement by the Deputy Director of
Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu.
According to the statement, “the suspects were cleared of
suspicion after being interrogated by the Joint Intelligence Centre of
Operation Lafiya Dole.”
Handing over the suspects, at the Borno State Rehabilitation
Centre, Bulumkutu, the Coordinator of the JIC, Brigadier-General Abdulrahman
Kuliya, said the crackdown on Boko Haram terrorists and their operational
network has yielded positive results.
This, according to him, includes marked reduction of the terrorist
group’s activities in the North East.
He called on all members of the public not to relent in furnishing
security agencies with useful information and report any suspicious persons or
activities.
The Director of the Borno State Rehabilitation Centre, Mrs Ladi
Clark, gave the assurance that the required steps would be taken to speed up
the rehabilitation and reintegration of the suspects into the society.
This is not the first time the army will be clearing suspected
terrorists. In January, 1,250 suspects were cleared and freed by the army.
Barely three months later, in April, another 593 suspects were
cleared and freed.
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