FG To Set Up N2.4bn Rehab Centre For Repentant Terrorists
Federal Government of Nigeria is proposing to set up a rehab center for Boko Haram and other Terrorists that already gave up their cause. The Federal Government is thinking on creating centers for remorseful terrorist organizations. Rear Admiral Yem Musa (retired), the coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre, explained the NCTC’s plans to establish two Disarmament, Deradicalization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Centers for remorseful terrorists to the House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence. He said that it is a component of the NCTC’s 2023 capital projects. The centers will receive N2, 400,000,000 of the projected N3, 839,160,000 in capital expenditures for the following year. On November 17, 2022, the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (retired), appeared before the committee with the leaders of the intelligence community to defend each of their individual 2023 budget plans. Musa bemoaned the fact that the NCTC, which is just a few months old, has struggled to raise enough money to carry out the objectives for which it was founded....