Operation Safe Corridor has handed over 86 Boko Haram child fighters who voluntarily surrendered to troops of Operation Lafiya Dole to the Borno State Rehabilitation Centre in Bulumkut
The Acting Director of Defence Information, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, said this was in an effort to ensure that minors and other repentant Boko Haram fighters were given the necessary support and opportunity to embrace peace through the auspices of OPSC.
According to Nwachukwu, the handover ceremony was witnessed by the Borno State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Zuwaira Gambo, and a UNICEF official, Mr Clement Adams, among others.
Gambo and Adams congratulated the repentant children for laying down their arms and urged them to take advantage of the programme to turn a new leaf and abandon the senseless struggle.
