The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) presented food and
non-food items to the military for Operation Safe Corridor Programme
meant to de-radicalize, rehabilitate and re-integrate eight hundred
(800) repented and surrendered Boko Haram insurgents to fast track peace
process in the North east.
Presenting the items in Gombe, the Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani Sidi said:
“The initiative, which is in line with international best practices
allowed those engaged in the fighting to voluntarily surrender and
embrace peace so that they undergo rehabilitation”
He said NEMA would play its role in the programme by providing regular
support of food and non-food items for their up keep. Items to be
released for this purpose every three months include; 410 bags of rice,
400 bags of beans, 200 bags of millet, 200 bags of sorghum, 750 cartons
of spaghetti, 50 cartons of Maggi cubes and 810 cartons tomato paste.
Others are 101 Vegetable oil in 20 liter kegs, 101 palm oil in 20 liter
kegs, 50 bags of salt, 100 bags of sugar, 420 cartons of milk and 420
cartons of milo chocolate.
The non food items include; 800 pieces of mattress, 500 hundred pieces
of blanket, 500 pieces of nylon mats, 1000 plastic buckets, 1000 plastic
spoons, 1000 plastic cups 1000, plastics plates, 1000 plastic pairs of
slippers, 2000 men’s wear, 63 cartons of bath soap and 1000 bath towels.
Receiving the items, the Coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor,
Brigadier- General BM Shafa said the initiative was designed to
de-radicalize, rehabilitate and re-integrate willing and repented Boko
Haram insurgents who have come out to surrender to the military and
believing that it would quicken the peace process in the North east.
“Between September last year and February this year a good number of Boko haram have come out to surrender” he added.
He thanked the Gombe State Government for providing the location and
giving them all the necessary support. About eleven (11) agencies of
Federal Government are directly involved in the Operation Safe Corridor
programme.
Source: NEMA