8000 Boko Haram members voluntarily surrender - Military
Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:30:am National
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The Nigerian Military on Tuesday in Abuja said that no fewer than 8,000 Boko Haram members had voluntarily surrendered to its `Operation Safe Corridor' in the North-East.
The Director of Defence Information, Brig-Gen Rabe Abubakar, disclosed this at a lecture organised by the FCT Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lecture with the theme, `Media-Military Relationship in the Fight against Insurgency', was part of the activities marking the 2016 Press Week of the chapel.
Abubakar said that the surrendered insurgents were in a camp in Gombe waiting to be `deradicalised' by the military.
The Director of Defence Information, Brig-Gen Rabe Abubakar, disclosed this at a lecture organised by the FCT Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lecture with the theme, `Media-Military Relationship in the Fight against Insurgency', was part of the activities marking the 2016 Press Week of the chapel.
Abubakar said that the surrendered insurgents were in a camp in Gombe waiting to be `deradicalised' by the military.
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