The governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, meets on April 25, 2013 with the chief of Training and Operations, Defense Headquaters in Maiduguri after two days of clashes between officers of the Joint Task Force and members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram on April 19 in the town of Baga near Lake Chad, 200 kms north of Maiduguri, in Borno State. Nigerian rescue workers set up temporary camps in Baga on April 25 and distributed aid to the masses displaced by brutal fighting that left 187 people dead. The bloodshed in Baga likely marked the deadliest-ever episode in the insurgency of Boko Haram, a radical group which has said it wants to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)
The Nigerian military have released 593 detainees after they had been cleared of any association with the Boko Haram terrorists.
The Theater Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, handed over the detainees to officials of the Borno Government at a ceremony in Maiduguri on Monday.
Irabor, represented by Brig.-Gen. Abdulrahman Kuluya, said the release was based on the directives of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.
“The military have made several efforts at ensuring that peace returns to the North-East by conducting different operations.
“Lots of efforts have been made to get us where we are today,” he said.
Irabor said that some suspects were arrested in the course of the operations in the North-East.
“The Chief of Army Staff has always made it clear at different fora that all persons arrested in the course of the anti- insurgency war in the North-East will not stay a minute more than necessary.
“Persons either arrested by the military or arrested and brought to the military by another person will not be allowed to stay more than necessary,” he said.
Irabor explained that the detainees were released after they were cleared by the Joint Investigation Team of the military.
He said that they were handed over to the State Government for psychosocial support before final reintegration into the society.
Receiving the detainees, Mrs Ladi Musa, the Welfare Officer at the Bulumkutu Rehabilitation Center, thanked the military for the gesture.
Musa said the State Government had already provided enough facilities at the center for the rehabilitation of the detainees.
Source: NAN
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