601 Repentant Boko Haram Terrorists Receive N20,000 Stipend Each

The 601 repentant Boko Haram terrorists who are being reintegrated into their communities have been given N20,000 stipend each and some basic equipment to practise their respective vocations.
The Borno State Commissioner for Information, Babakura Jatau, said this during a chat with newsmen in Maiduguri, the state capital, at the weekend.
Jatau said the funds and the starter packs were given to the repentant insurgents by the North East Development Commission (NEDC) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
He denied reports that the state government was giving each of the beneficiaries N100,000.
The commissioner claimed only about 10 per cent of the 601 repentant terrorists were actually Boko Haram members while the rest were those who were abducted and became accomplices.
The commissioner said, “They are 601 of them and the question of government giving them N100,000 each does not arise. What happened is that the North East Development Commission gave them starter packs. Some of them trained as barbers, so, they were given clippers and generators, and then given N20,000 cash and their shops will be paid for.