The beneficiaries, who had previously surrendered to troops in different operations across the state, were processed through rehabilitation camps at the Hajj Camp in Maiduguri, where authorities said they underwent skills acquisition training, counselling, and ideological reorientation.
The Borno State government has reintegrated a total of 720 repentant insurgents, alongside 992 spouses and 2,050 children, back into society after completing what officials described as deradicalisation, disarmament, and rehabilitation programmes under the state’s controversial peacebuilding initiative known as the “Borno Model.”
The beneficiaries, who had previously surrendered to troops in different operations across the state, were processed through rehabilitation camps at the Hajj Camp in Maiduguri, where authorities said they underwent skills acquisition training, counselling, and ideological reorientation.
They were formally reintegrated during a ceremony held on Friday, with officials saying the group constitutes Batch 9 low-risk and minor clients under the state’s ongoing non-kinetic approach to counter-insurgency.
Speaking at the event, the Special Adviser to Governor Babagana Zulum on Security and a member of the Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Committee, Brigadier General Abdullahi Ishaq (Rtd), said the programme represents a key pillar of the state’s strategy to address insurgency beyond military confrontation.
