{"id":170612,"date":"2022-04-01T06:37:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=170612"},"modified":"2022-04-01T06:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:37:25","slug":"insurgency-in-borno-has-reduced-by-80-says-zulum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/01\/insurgency-in-borno-has-reduced-by-80-says-zulum\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurgency in Borno has reduced by 80%, says Zulum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Borno state, Babagana Zulum has stated that the surrender of Boko Haram militants has contributed to reducing insurgency in the state by 80 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Nigerian Army as of November 2021 had said more than 15,000 insurgents\u00a0and their family members had surrendered to troops.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government\u2019s programme aimed at rehabilitating insurgents who have surrendered has attracted criticism, including from victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/10\/were-working-towards-ending-insurgency-by-2023-babagana-zulum\/\">insurgency<\/a> who have rejected the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with state house correspondents\u00a0at the Aso Rock villa on Thursday, Zulum said \u201csocial cohesion\u201d is one of the measures needed to achieve stability in the north-east region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think those that are saying this are not aware of what is going on in Borno state. In Borno state, these people voluntarily surrendered by themselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no provision, nor any law in the whole world, which states that those that have voluntarily surrendered shall be killed. And because of this surrender, amongst others, the insurgency situation in Borno state has been reduced by about 80 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also became resilient enough to fight them. Involvement of civilian JTF, community resilience, enhancing peace building, social cohesion and stability are some of the things that we need to do in order to reduce insurgency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zulum said the operations of the multinational joint task force (MNJTF) would curb the activities of the insurgents around the Lake Chad region.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Bello Matawalle, Zamfara governor, said his administration has been collaborating with the Nigerien authorities to fight gunmen destabilising the north-western region of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to have a joint task force between the Nigerian and Nigerien security, and we will provide some logistics for them in order to ease their operations,\u201d Matawalle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are doing is that if we have any information about bandits that are coming from Niger, then we are going to reach them from Nigeria and alert the Nigerien security to monitor and push them so that we can collectively fight these criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Borno state, Babagana Zulum has stated that the surrender of Boko Haram militants has contributed to reducing insurgency in the state by 80 percent. 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