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• Says Govt. Ready To Rehabilitate Repentant Members
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President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that security organizations could deal significantly with those he defined as “unscrupulous characters” who make political fortune out of schoolgirls’ abductions inside the country..
Receiving 107 schoolgirls and number one faculty scholars from Dapchi, Yobe State, on the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the day past, the President also threatened that any protection leader who methods his assigned undertaking with levity, giving room for lapses, could be dealt with.
The President insisted that Boko Haram insurgents released the Dapchi schoolgirls on Wednesday, unconditionally, after painstaking returned channel negotiations, pronouncing authorities opted for negotiations as it did not need any of the captives to be hurt, including that the approach had paid off with their release.
While also attractive to the Chibok community by no means to lose hope or despair, Buhari said his management changed into determined to carry returned the final Chibok schoolgirls still being held by way of their abductors.
He also urged insurgents running inside the northeast to end hostilities and surrender, stating that his authorities turned into equipped to accept the unconditional laying down of palms by using contributors of the Boko Haram group who display strong dedication to do so.
“We are prepared to rehabilitate and integrate such repentant participants into the larger society. This country Has suffered sufficient of hostility.
“Government is, therefore, appealing to all to embrace peace for the overall improvement of our human beings and the us of a.
“I have tasked all of the protection groups to paintings to ensure that we do now not witness any recurrence of these incidents. Security chiefs have been warned, in clear phrases, that any lapse on their element may be considered significantly.
“May I additionally warn those elements who have selected to make political fortune of our citizens’ misfortune that authorities would now not tolerate any try by way of any man or woman or group to trivialise or politicise protection problems for politically-encouraged ends
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“Accordingly, protection companies could not hesitate to decisively deal with such unscrupulous characters,” he stated.
Handing over the distraught schoolgirls, Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, instructed the President that the negative effect of social media and what frequently should be a categorised operation, as well as the utterances of a few government officers, who were not equipped to comment on the problems, posed challenges that almost marred the attempt to comfortable the discharge of the schoolgirls.
Daura, but, stated despite those challenges, the DSS controlled to efficaciously finish the operation, leading to the release of the kidnapped Dapchi schoolgirls, in step with the clear directive to apply non violent options to make certain their timely and safe release.
He stated: “The exercise become arduous and pretty hard. The sensitivity of the operation and some uncertainties surrounding it, mainly routes for use, nature of transportation, realisation and challenge that the women have been no longer saved at one area, issues of encountering army checkpoints inside the theatre and indeed maintaining the operation on strictly the “Principles of Need-to-Know,” made the entire workout more complicating.”
He added that past the release of the abducted women, the DSS primary hobby for attractive within the speak was informed through certain expert issues, which includes everlasting, feasible cessation of hostilities, discussing the destiny of the arrested insurgents and innocent Nigerian citizens being held hostage and opportunity of granting amnesty to repentant insurgents.
“These presently appear elaborate, due to the fact the insurgents are factionalised, while protecting diverse spheres of affect of their guerrilla managed enclaves,” he added.
Giving similarly insight into what transpired at some point of the negotiations, the DSS boss said: “The insurgents’ handiest situation become their call for for cessation of hostilities and temporary ceasefire to enable them return the women on the factor they picked them.
“They required warranty that the authorities protection forces could preserve to this.”
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Daura additionally found out that the released Dapchi schoolgirls were taken into the DSS clinical facility and positioned thru programmes to offer them mental stability and they were given mental and mental assessment carried out by educated experts.
“About four of them, who were determined to have broken limbs, had been sent for X-ray. Almost all of them had one pores and skin infection or the opposite, having now not taken bath for over a month.
“They had been medically tested and people with illnesses have been treated. The measures are to make sure that they are in top health.
‘The women, which include 4 representatives of their college, the Principal and Vice, as well as their parents, were delivered into the scientific facility as part of measures to alleviation tension and tension.
“The presence of these representatives have similarly re-confident and stabilised the ladies,” he brought.
On the manner forward, the DSS boss advised that efforts be sustained with the aid of the federal authorities towards ensuring the discharge of all abducted folks within the northeast theatre of operation, stressing the want to enhance the strategic plan for the safety of colleges in prone locations, using all available country wide belongings, enhance at the coordination efforts among protection groups to keep away from future incidents and increase the current talk towards conflict mitigation and resolution, if you want to getting an everlasting peace for the entire sub-region.
Meanwhile, the rescued girls the previous day arrived the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where they have been received with the aid of ready Presidency officials.
Also handed over to the President yesterday have been two additional young pupils- Hafsat Haruna, eleven, and Mala Maina Bukar, thirteen- both number one six pupils.
Daura said six of the Dapchi schoolgirls were yet to be accounted for, however confident that there was ongoing communicate to have them launched too.
Others reachable to witness the handover of the released captives were the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen. Babagana Mongunu (rtd); Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Gabriel Olonishakin; Minister of Defence, Brig-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali (rtd); Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.
Also gift have been Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha; Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami; Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed and Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazau (rtd).
Boko Haram contributors stormed the Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, on February 19 and kidnapped about a hundred and ten students from the college.