Take Boko-Haram To Court, Senator Ali Ndume Pleads

• Senator Ali Ndume says the Repentant Boko-Haram Insurgents should not be pardoned without been tried.

Known for publicly voicing against the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Re-Integration (DRR) programme that was launched in 2016 for Repented Boko Haram Member, Senator Ali Ndume has once again charged the government to penalize some of the repentant Boko-Haram Insurgents.

The former senate majority leader said Boko-Haram members who surrendered after commiting severe atrocities mist be investigated and prosecuted.

In the words, “My stance on this has not changed, only that maybe people interpret it the way they want. There is a national law that should guide all these and there is international law that guides this because this is not the first time we’re having this sort of challenge in various countries”

Ndume, who is also the chairman of the Senate committee on the army, went on further to say that “Normally, when you get to war level, you are expected to either defeat the enemy or the enemy surrenders. Once the enemy surrenders, you lose the right of summarily executing him because he is an enemy. You also don’t have the right to summarily declare him innocent and say, oh, you have sinned, go and sin no more.”

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“What I’m saying initially and I still maintain this position, in as much as we welcome the surrendering of the Boko Haram, it is very important that we follow the due process, according to the law of the land and the international law.

“That is to say, take them in, profile them, process them, investigate them, interrogate them and then those that are innocent, should be let go, and those that have blood on their hands, they should be appropriately prosecuted.

“Once the person surrenders, now, he has an advantage. Once you surrender, you cannot just be summarily convicted, you will be given the right to go to court and declare your innocence or otherwise. That is what I’m asking for.”

EkoHotBlog gathered that no less than 2,000 terrorists have so far surrendered to the Nigerian Army.