Deploy Repentant Boko Haram Members To Farms, Ex-General

Deploy Repentant Boko Haram Members To Farms, Ex-General
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A former Chairman of Training and Operations at the Military Headquarters in Abuja, Brigadier Gen. John Sura (retd.), has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to deploy the over 1,000 Boko Haram terrorists who recently repented to the farm.

Speaking on Friday, he they should be used to cultivate agricultural products that they deprived the Internally Displaced Persons and other Nigerians to produce.

He disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Treat Boko Haram repentant terrorists as prisoners of war.’

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Sura, who described the repentant terrorists as prisoners of war, argued that there should be a modification to the Geneva Convention which granted them some privileges such as protection against any act of violence as well as against intimidation, insults and public curiosity among others.

He stressed that they should rather be treated as persons serving prison terms and subjected to a condition below those in the IDP camps.

He said, ‘In the case of repentant Boko Haram, they should be treated as persons in prison with hard labour to serve as deterrent.

‘Imprisonment with hard labour which defines minimum condition for detentions such as accommodation, feeding, medical, food, and clothing etc., should not be inconsonant with the Geneva convention.

‘I will therefore suggest that the BH repentant should be treated lower than the provisions given to the Internally Displaced Persons.

‘They should be treated to bring true repentance and dignity to human life.

‘They should be used to cultivate agricultural products that they deprived the IDPs and other Nigerians to produce.’

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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