The Presidency has disclosed that Boko Haram continues to recruit its ranks by abducting children from rural communities whenever the terrorist group suffers heavy losses during military operations.
Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, made the disclosure on Wednesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
He explained that many of the young people found within insurgent camps were not willing recruits but victims of forced abduction.
According to Bwala, the terrorist group often turns to vulnerable villages in the North-East to source new members after losing fighters in clashes with security forces.
“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 noted that some of them who later surrender to government authorities were initially kidnapped and forced
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