The Defence Headquarters has inaugurated a committee to midwife the process that will lead to the granting of amnesty to willing members of the Boko Haram sect.

A Defence Headquarters’ statement, signed by Group Captain Wap Maigida, on behalf of the Acting Director, Defence Information, Col. Rabe Abubakar, stated that the planned reintegration would involve three categories of Boko Haram members.

According to him, those to benefit from the government’s gesture are those who were forcibly conscripted into the sect; those who have surrendered and renounced membership of the deadly sect and those who are willing to do so.

Maigida said that the membership of the committee were drawn from federal agencies involved in the ongoing campaign against the insurgency and representatives of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Gombe, Bauchi and Taraba states in the North-East and Jigawa State in the North-West.

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