Pregnant women among 400 repentant bandits – Benue Govt

The Benue State Government has disclosed that immoderate large women who were kidnapped and forced to service arsenic cooks for transgression gangs are portion of the 400 section bandits who person indicated readiness to surrender and acquisition rehabilitation earlier being reintegrated into society.

The announcement comes amid caller contention successful the authorities implicit plans to found a rehabilitation centre for repentant bandits, a determination that sparked disapproval from residents who questioned the government’s intentions.

Addressing journalists successful Makurdi, the Director-General of the Commission for Peace and Reconciliation, Josephine Habba, explained wherefore the authorities is seeking national support to acceptable up a Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) Centre.

Habba said the projected installation is aimed astatine rehabilitating affected individuals, peculiarly those coerced into transgression activities.

She decried the persistent insecurity successful Ukum, Logo, and Katsina-Ala Local Government Areas, stressing the request for decisive involution to reconstruct peace.

According to her, erstwhile approved by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Olufemi Oluyede, the centre volition beryllium located successful ...