“Nigeria being a signatory to UN conventions, we have to comply fully with that portion of convention. “Even if you arrest or capture an enemy or prisoner of war, by international law, you are to treat him with all human dignity; you must do that, as long as you are a signatory to UN convention.
“We evolved a policy by the defence headquarter and that operation is called operation ‘Safe Corridor’.
“Operation safe corridor is an operation trying to rehabilitate, reintegrate, empower and de-radicalise those, who surrender and those, who are captured.
“It is not in any way amnesty. We are trying to comply fully with international best global practices and that is why we came up with that.
“The Chief of Defence Staff, Maj.-Gen. Abayomi Olonishakin with other service chief agreed to this and they came up with this, which is the first of its kind since the terror of Boko Haram.
“And very soon, we will have a camp somewhere in the North- East where they will be kept for empowering and reintegrating and de-radicalising them.’’
However, he said that the military was not in any way relaxing in finding out the sponsors of boko haram.
“We are not in any way relaxing in finding out those who are sponsoring but those who are really active in the insurgency are our first target.
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