The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said Boko Haram often replenishes its ranks by abducting children from villages whenever the terrorist group suffers significant losses.
Bwala made this known on Wednesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he explained the complexities surrounding the rehabilitation of former insurgents.
“When Boko Haram starts to lose their members, they go to villages and carry children and take them to the bush and recruit them; these are the people you recruited against their will,” Bwala said.
He explained that some of the abducted children eventually escape from the insurgents’ camps and surrender to the Nigerian authorities.
“If something happens in the camp and they escape, they come to Nigerian government, and they said they have repented, the Nigeria government will not shoot them,” he said.
Bwala noted that the handling of such cases is guided
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