Over more than a decade, Boko Haram jihadists, along with combatants from dissident offshoot the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have killed at least 40,000 people. Both say they were in Boko Haram for about six years but began to doubt its practices in 2016. When the Boko Haram recruits heard the government was offering vocational training if they surrendered, they decided to make a break for it. In his cell of 300 people, he said, "not up to 20 were real Boko Haram". - Stripping away radicalisation -Aliyu, Muhammad, Abubakar and Mallam eventually arrived at their destination -- the rehabilitation centre in Gombe state.

Source: Bangkok Post August 30, 2021 03:56 UTC