The Federal Government has rejected a recommendation by the Presidential Committee on the Security Challenges in the North-East to pay compensation to victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.
It also turned down another recommendation by the panel to transfer about 61 detained Boko Haram members to Maiduguri.
However, government will offer victims unspecified assistance.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Caleb Olubolade said recently that 308 people were killed in 118 gun and bomb attacks by the sect across Abuja and six Northern states of Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, Niger, Yobe and Plateau.
The Borno State Government in January paid N100million as compensation to the family of the late Alhaji Baba Fugu Mohammed, father in-law to Mr. Mohammed Yusuf, the late leader of Boko Haram Islamic sect.
The Borno State government said the payment was in obedience to a court order.
The Commissioner for Information, Inuwa Bwala said: “The family of the in-laws of the late Mohammed Yusuf took the previous government in the state to court and the court awarded them N100 million damages.
“The present government was magnanimous enough to pay the judgement sum because we do not want to continue to drag this matter while the people are suffering.”
In recommending the transfer of the 61 detainees to Maiduguri, the Usman Galtimari Panel hoped it would douse the tension generated by suspicion that the detainees have been killed.
The Federal Government, in the gazetted White Paper on the panel’s report just released in Abuja, however, agreed to install counter-Improvised Explosive Devices equipment in the Central Bank (CBN), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and other sensitive agencies and areas in the country to check terror attacks.
The committee called for the transfer of the 61 detained Boko Haram suspects to Maiduguri with much publicity to prove that they have not been killed.
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