Gombe – About 800 repentant Boko Haram members will soon arrive Gombe for rehabilitation, Brig.-Gen. Bamidele Shaffa, Coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor for Repentant Boko Haram, has said.
He spoke on Monday in Gombe during an interactive session with newsmen.
Shaffa said that all the necessary arrangements had been put in place to commence operation at the rehabilitation camp.
According to him, the repentant militants would undergo a de-radicalisation process in the camp, which would prepare them to go back to their various communities.
Shaffa said that about 14 Federal Government agencies including the security personnel would work in the camp.
He said the former militants would be trained in 12 different trades and vocations.
Shaffa said that the National Directorate of Employment would provide all the facilities for the training.
Also speaking, Malam Sani Sidi, Director General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), who spoke, said that the agency would provide food and other items for the trainees.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that items donated by NEMA include bags of rice, vegetable oil, mattresses, among other items. (NAN)