On Wednesday, Daniel Bwala, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, unveiled Boko Haram’s recruitment techniques for children.
Bwala revealed that when Boko Haram starts losing members, they invade villages and kidnap children to recruit.
On Channels Television’s Politics Today, Bwala stated: “When Boko Haram begins to lose members, they go to villages, carry children, and take them to the bush to recruit them; these are the people you recruited against their will.”
“If something happens in the camp and they escape, they should go to the Nigerian authorities and say they have repented; Nigeria will not shoot them.
“That is why I stated that the dynamics of armed conflict are governed by the United Nations Convention.”
“The other half of your anxiety, as shared by most Nigerians, is that we have had incidents where some of them ran back; even the governor of Borno once stated that some of the attacks that resurfaced were most likely linked to some of people that fled.
“In warfare and conflicts, these things are possibilities, even when it comes to established institutions of state from foreign intelligence, we have seen defection of people to another place where they are recruited, these are realities of facts.”