Boko Haram: Gov Zulum chastised for claiming that terrorists truly repentant

Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has been chastised for claiming that the repentant Boko Haram terrorists are ‘truly repentant.’

HURIWA, the Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association, said the governor should hide his face in shame for defending terrorists.

Zulum recently stated that he believes that more than 90% of Boko Haram members who have surrendered to the military are truly repentant.

He said this as the Buhari administration and the Nigerian armed forces have been chastised for granting amnesty to terrorists.

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Governor Zulum was reminded by the group that millions of victims of heartbreaking terror campaigns have been scattered around the world as refugees and internally displaced persons for more than a decade.

“What then is the concept of government and the dispensation of justice, including bringing killers to face the long arm of the law and for the victims to receive social justice and closure to their sufferings?

“HURIWA thinks this Federal government has been so unfair to the victims if terrorism in Nigeria”, the group said in a statement signed by Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, its national coordinator and made available to TELEVISION NIGERIAN.

The rights group called on the Federal Government to perish the idea of implementing the unconstitutional programme of reintegration of terrorists.

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According to HURIWA, the move will rubbish the essence, significance and the place of the grundnorm in the society, “and has made Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari look like a Banana republic in the eyes of the international community.”