In this report, focusing on participants of Operation Safe Corridor, Nigeria’s deradicalisation, rehabilitation and reintegration programme for repentant terrorists, SOLOMON ODENIYI writes that several individuals among those enrolled claim they were wrongly arrested during security operations and are now undergoing the same rehabilitation and reintegration process alongside convicted or suspected insurgents
In 2013, Baba Garba was only 18 when soldiers stormed his community of Warabe in Borno State.
The young man said that morning marked the beginning of a life he never imagined for himself.
At the time, Boko Haram attacks had become a constant and grim reality in parts of the state. But Garba said he never expected that living in a community frequently targeted by insurgents would eventually place him in the path of a sweeping military crackdown.
He recalled being at home when military vehicles suddenly rolled into the community, throwing residents into panic as soldiers began rounding up young men.
