Peoples’ Gazette
Some Boko Haram terrorists are begging Nigerians for forgiveness after killing 350,000 persons, kidnapping hundreds of schoolchildren and displacing close to three million in last 12 year of their nefarious activities in North-East Nigeria.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in June reported that Boko Haram terrorists have killed about 350,000 people in the North-East, of whom 90 per cent were children since they took up arms against the Nigerian state in 2009.
The Nigerian army in a statement on Monday, disclosed that a so-called bomb expert for the terrorist group known as Musa Adamu, a.k.a Mala Musa Abuja, and his second in command Usman Adamu, a.k.a Abu Darda, along with their families and followers surrendered to the troops of operation Hadin Kai in Bama Local Government Area of Borno.
Photos shared on the army’s social media page saw the surrendered terrorists display several placards with different inscriptions such as “Nigerians, please forgive us”, “surrender and live”, “surrender and be free”, among others.
Apart from carrying out devastating attacks across North-East, Boko Haram insurgents bombed the United Nation Building in 2011 and the Nyanya motor park, both locations within the Federal Capital Territory, killing over hundred persons.
In 2014, Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped over 270 school girls in Chibok, a community in Borno State, a development widely condemned across the globe.
Similarly, in 2018, the insurgents kidnapped over 100 schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, releasing all of the students but Leah Sharibu, a Christian who refused to denounce her faith.
Despite records of Boko Haram terrorists’ crime against Nigeria, however, Mr President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016 established “Operation Safe Corridor” with the mandate to deradicalise and rehabilitate repentant Boko Haram fight…
