Rehabilitating terrorists sends wrong signal to victims – Mahdi Shehu

A nationalist affairs commentator, Mahdi Shehu, has criticised ongoing efforts by authorities to rehabilitate and reintegrate erstwhile insurgents and criminals, saying the attack sends a unsafe connection to victims and law-abiding citizens.

In a station connected his verified X grip connected Friday, Shehu said it is the work of the authorities to support instrumentality and order, support lives and property, and enforce the instrumentality strictly without compromise.

“It is the work of the authorities to support instrumentality and order, support lives and properties and use provisions of the instrumentality without bending back: beingness for life,” helium said.

He argued that forgiveness should not beryllium the work of government.

He stressed that specified decisions beryllium to God.

“It is the prerogative of God to forgive offenders, sinners and different murderers connected judgement day,” helium added.

Shehu faulted what helium described arsenic the continued rehabilitation and reintegration of criminals, including members of Boko Haram, ISWAP, and different equipped groups, nether assorted amnesty programmes implicit the past decade.

“Within the past ten(10) years, criminals of each flavours, shades and colors (Boko Haram, Iswap, arsonists, murderers etc) are being rehabilitated and integrated by assorted authorities governments nether a misguided amnesty programme,” helium said.

According to him, implicit 700 repentant Boko Haram members were said to person completed a de-r...