At least 600 members of the Boko Haram terrorist group were freed in Nigeria after they complete a rehabilitation and reintegration program after they denounced and left the ISIS-affiliated terror organization. The former terrorists were arrested in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states during a series of military campaigns against Boko Haram.
According to Bamidele Shafa, spokesperson for the Nigerian military’s Operation Safe Corridor, members of the terror group who were rehabilitated had sworn an oath of allegiance to the Republic of Nigeria. Shafa said the freed individuals will not rejoin Boko Haram and that 1,400 other Boko Haram fighters who renounced their membership were released previously. Additionally, Shafa said that another 280 terrorists were now at the rehabilitation center.
Boko Haram attacks have killed over 30,000 people and displaced about 3 million since July 2009, when the violence started in the country’s northeast states and has since spread across the larger Chad Basin and the group splintering into two groups with the aim of creating a Sharia-governed Islamic territory.
