Borno State Government says more insurgents are laying down their arms because authorities adopted a non-kinetic warfare.<\/p>\n
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Special Adviser to the Borno State Governor, retired Brig.-Gen. Abdullahi Ishaq, made this known in Maiduguri while speaking on the Borno Model in ending the insurgency through non kinetic approach at a stakeholders dialogue on enhancing peace and security in Borno.<\/p>\n
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Ishaq who also delivered a paper detailing how the over 35,000 Boko Haram surrenders were being managed, said the non-kinetic approach adopted by \u201dOperation Hadin Kai\u201d of the Nigeria Military Command and Control Centre played an immense role that led to the mass surrender.<\/p>\n
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He said the repentant Boko Haram members would not harm anyone because they were not forced to repent.<\/p>\n
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He said the non-kinetic approach adopted in the counter-insurgency effort woos more insurgents to repentant.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAnother good thing about this non kinetic approach we call the Borno Model is that the rate of attack and kidnapping on the Maiduguri-Damaturu road and the Maiduguri-Monguno road has reduced drastically.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFarming activities have also resumed and farmers are harvesting their crops with less tension,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Ishaq noted during the pick of the insurgency, many women including nursing mothers and pregnant women as well as Quranic pupils (Almajiri) and their teachers, particularly in Bama and Dikwa local governments were abducted and taken to the bush by the insurgents who occupied the areas.<\/p>\n
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He lauded one of the repentant Boko-Haram member identified as Modo, who he said was key in mobilising others to surrender by leading the first group of 37 fighters to surrender in Bama Local Government.<\/p>\n
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\u201cModu, who is from Dikwa, was an undergraduate a university. He lost his father and came for the seventh-day prayer, after the prayer on his way back he was captured in Mafa and taken to the bush; that was how Modu became Boko haram member.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe is among the 500 repentant Boko Haram members so far reintegrated. Six of them are working with the military in rural areas providing credible information and reaching out to others in the bush to also surrender,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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While lauding all stakeholders for the support to the non kinetic approach, particularly the military and other security agencies committed to end the insurgency, Ishaq urged the public for maximum support to achieved sustainable peace for development.<\/p>\n
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