The Nigerian Military yesterday said over 800 members of the Boko Haram sect have voluntarily renounced their membership with the group.

The Ag. Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar made this known while delivering lecture during the FCT Correspondent Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalist workshop with the theme “Media military relationship in the fight against insurgency”.

The DDI said the above number turned in between August 2015 and date, adding that it is those ones that the military will rehabilitate and deradicalise using Imams, Pastors and government agencies.

He said, “We have over 800 of them who surrendered to security agencies on their own. Those are the ones we are going to rehabilitate, deradicalize in order to become responsible citizens of this country. That is why we are employing services of both imams and pastors and other government agencies to help in reforming them and the camp is in Gombe.”

He further said more than 10,000 Boko Haram captives have been rescued by the military and reunited with their families while others are taken to the Internally Displaced Person’s camp.