An indigiene of Borno state. Enoch Yohanna, has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria of granting financial payouts of up to ₦3 million to rehabilitated Boko Haram insurgents.
Speaking at a recent public event, Yohanna expressed profound grievance over the alleged utilization of public funds to compensate individuals responsible for widespread atrocities.
“My pain is that the assailants who killed my father and carried out mass abductions are being paid with taxpayers’ money,” Yohanna stated.
The controversy centers on Operation Safe Corridor (OSC), an initiative launched by the Muhammadu Buhari administration in 2016. The programme was designed to establish a non-violent exit strategy for “low-risk” and “repentant” combatants. It utilizes a structured framework of Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration (DRR) to transition former insurgents back into society.
According to Yohanna
‘’Boko haram are being rehabilitated, Now, what they do after rehabilitation, they fill form, ask them questions on how many people have they k!lled. If they k!ll 50, they have there are own class. If you have never k!lled, you stay there one month,. If you k!ll small number, two months. If you kill many, six months. Which type of ammunition have you used?
These are the people that are given payoff of N3 million and monthly salary of N50, 000. I am revealing this. After been rehabilitated and cannot live without using g$ns, the government will provide gun for you as a civilian JTF. You all know they are here in Abuja. Most of them are repented Boko Haram. Some of them that cannot stay in the society, they are being exported to Algeria to go and and do illegal gold mining in Algeria. and be paid. If they sustain gunshots, they are goingto be transported back to Maiduguri and treated in University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital through the government of Borno state.
The civilian JTFs. Go to Zamfara, they are there. The government of Zamfara is paying the government of Borno N70, 000. The government of Borno is paying them N50, 000, meaning it is a job. It is a business. It is not a crime to start a business if the business is being recognised by our government.
The businss I am craving for is to start my terror!sm. I am not going to terror!ze anybody. I am going to fight back. It has been so painful that the k!llers of my dad is being paid with taxpayers money. The abductors of our wives, our childre, our sister are being paid with taxpayers money. They drive luxury cars with escorts. There is one man that slaughtered 96 people a day, now he is driving hilux. His name is Adamu. I am saying this., I do not care. I am ready to d!e because what is the life”
Watch a video of him speaking below
