…Backs Ndume on de-radicalisation
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr. Garus Gololo, has thrown his weight behind the position of Senator Ali Ndume (Borno South) against the federal government move to rehabilitate and de-radicalise repentant members of the Boko Haram sect.
Ndume, the Senate Committee chairman on Army, had on Wednesday, during a budget defence of the Nigerian Army in National Assembly, reiterated his stand against empowering repentant members of the sect.
At a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, Dr. Gololo said there was no way any terrorist, albeit, Boko Haram members, could genuinely repent.
“Boko Haram can never repent; they are members of ISIS which is terrorising the entire world. They can only repent when bullets hit them,” he said.
Gololo, an expert in military tactics and security, said: “It was only when fire became too much, that Boko Haram hibernated and pretended to repent. It was repented Boko Haram members that ambushed Col. Bako in Danboa, all because they had already understudied the mode of operations of the Nigerian Army and the usual route they use.”
He also called for greater funding for the Nigerian Army and Police Force, adding that, “Police should not use sticks and bare hands to fight banditry.
“I want to call on President Muhammad Buhari to advise whoever that is in charge to rather use this money of de-radicalising Boko Haram members to fund the Army and our security agencies. Boko Haram now using AA and Shilka which has 10 muscles and has higher capacities than Tank; it is used as anti aircraft which can magnet helicopters and flights.
“They are well equipped and get their funding from oversea. Nigeria should not waste money on rehabilitating them. The Nigerian Army had done it in Liberia, Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Darfur in South Sudan and even at Somalia, where there is Al-Shabaab.”
