Boko Haram Affected Communities in Borno Accepts Transitional Justice Delivery and acceptability
By Babagana Bukar Wakil, Maiduguri
In it efforts to ensure improvement in the ongoing awareness creation campaign and advocacy to widely and posstively accept activities of transitional justice delivery among the Boko Haram affected communities across nuck and crany of Borno state,Northeast Nigeria foe peace and security continue reign.
The Executive Director, Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development, Hajiya Hamsatu Allamin has said the transitional justice project has made a significant impact in the past decade of the post Boko haram insurgency era in Borno State.
We have measured the community perspectives, concerns, peers and aspirations of community stakeholders a lot.
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There is gradual awareness, improvement, acceptability and positive impact in the entire activities of transitional justice, Hajiya Allamin said on Thursday at a one day FCDO Project Dissemination Meeting in Maidugiri.
Hajiya Allamin stressed that the transitional justice in collaboration with the community stakeholders was for the purpose of reconciliation, reintegration and peace building among various community stakeholders in the four LGAs of the state.
She also commended some of the Media practitioners for excellent job, saying,” This is the time we expect our stakeholders to open up and tell us so as to inform our future programming and then future redesign as well as even future interventions. But so far, members of our transitional justice media forum are doing well in their reportage.
What we want out of these is to get stakeholder feedback. So that if there is anything that we did inappropriately are not supposed to be the way it is,. Our community advocates on transitional justice and reconciliations are preparing to okay it.
Adding that to this, the repentant Boko Haram insurgents have continued to surrender in numbers. And what need to be done is to ensure that PS is sustained or maintained Alhamdulillahi. They have surrendered in over 160,000 so far, and then including fighters and others.
Therefore, what we did at our own level together with all of you as witnesses, is that we identify the real radicalized women and0% children among them and then started direct engagement with them so that we understand the level of de radicalization and which we did very well,” Hajiya Hamsatu said.
