The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Abdullahi Muhammadu, says Nigeria would be courting disaster by failing to rehabilitate people, especially children, who have gone through terrible ordeals in the hands of Boko Haram insurgents.
The NSCDC boss, who said this on Friday, also stated that the rehabilitation ought to come before material assistance.
He noted that over five thousand children who had lost their parent in the carnage perpetuated by Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno State.
“Terrorism in Nigeria has taken a different dimension. Some years ago, we never thought in our lives that in Nigeria we would have suicide bombers. Today, we have them among our children.”
“We have to wake up to fight this virus in our system now. I was opportune to be among the team that went to the North-East with the minister and the service chiefs.”
“What I saw on ground in the aftermath of Boko Haram, honestly, if you go there as a Nigerian, you will weep.”
“In Maiduguri alone, when we visited one of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, we saw more than 5,000 orphans.”
“Some of the members of the House of Representatives who went with us could not stand the situation. They went out crying because when you see a nine years old girl crying and you ask her, where is your father and she tells you that in her presence her father was slaughtered, what do you do? And where is your mother? She says her mother was shot in the breast and she fell down and that she had a scar on her head and you could see it.”
“So what do we do to fight this virus out of the system?”
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