A repentant female Boko Haram member, who underwent deradicalisation and resettled in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno, Fatima Musa, has said she regrets shredding into pieces her National Certificate in Education.
Musa made this known in Maiduguri on Tuesday during a community dialogue on understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence organised for the repentants and community leaders of Mafa.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the dialogue was organised by a community-based NGO, Allamin Foundation with support from the British Government under the UKaid.
Musa, who was deradicalised with other repentant women by the foundation, said many of them joined the insurgency at a young age after they were misled.
“We were misled as young people through the use of religion and later discovered that we went the wrong way after we were deradicalised by the foundation.
”We…