A lawyer and human rights activist, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has described the proposed law by the Senate to rehabilitate repentant Boko Haram terrorists as madness taken too far.
He said the development was unfortunate confirmation of the long held view that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration had been treating the Boko Haram insurgents with kid gloves.
He asked: “How can lawmakers establish an agency for the rehabilitation of alleged repentant members of a murderous deadly organisation, which has since been declared as the third most deadly terrorist organisation in the world?
“How will they distinguish between genuinely repentant ones and those pretending to have repented, but nonetheless playing along to wreak further maximum damage to an already devastated populace?”
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He added that it was morally reprehensible and ethically odious to reintegrate into the society with taxpayers’ money, earth-scorching killers who had been daily destroying the very essence of humanity, walking literally on hot crimson blood of savagely butchered Nigerians.
“What regrettable lessons is the Senate sending to those marines soldiers taking on these deadly insurgents on empty tummies and with antiquated weapons? How unfair can such a bill for the memory of those thousands of soldiers cut down in their prime while fighting this societal scourge of rampaging marauders?” he asked.
He maintained that the Senate that appeared idle, visionless and rudderless should save the country from further denigration, opprobrium, ridicule and embarrassment by dropping the ill-advised, ill-conceived and ill-digested retrogressive bill and face the current asphyxiating challenges that daily threaten Nigeria’s survival and assail her very existence.
