Nigeria: Senate's Belated Rise Against 'Repentant' Terrorists

[Vanguard] The Senate has finally given voice to a national outrage that has simmered for too long: Nigeria's policy of rehabilitating and reintegrating so-called repentant Boko Haram fighters without doing them justice. It has outlived whatever limited utility its creators may once have claimed. A programme that begins with surrender and ends with return to the very society these men once terrorised is not a strategy but a gamble with human lives and public trust, as well as a nursery bed for…