The Senate has initiated plans to establish a rehabilitation, deradicalisation and integration agency that would cater for repentant Boko Haram members in the country.
A bill, sponsored by Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe East senatorial district, was read for the first time on the floor of the Senate on Thursday.
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Introduction of the bill by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, attracted reactions from the lawmakers during plenary.
However, the bill, scaled first reading after it was put to a voice vote by the Deputy Senate president, Ovie Omo-Agege, who presided over plenary.
