Officials of the National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: Management Board have been tasked to redouble efforts towards ensuring an effective reinsertion of ex-combatants into the society and to avoid the situation where some may want to return to their old times.
Striking ex-fighters
Prime Minister Chief Dr. Joseph Dio Ngute gave the instructions as he chaired the second session of the committee earlier this week. He told the officials the the DDR centres of the North West, South West and Far North regions must ensure an effective socioeconomic reinsertion of ex-fighters in all the activities carried out at the centres.Focused on the session was also on evaluating and examining different reintegration strategies as well as financial opportunities for the ex-fighters. The three centres according to the National Coordinator, Fai Yengo Francis, counts some 651 repentant fighters.
Fai Yengo said the committee is focused of erecting infrastructures for the centres and ensuring an accelerated training programme with focus on de-radicalisation are the main strategy.
The session was attended by other government ministers whose services are concerned with the programme among them the Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, Mounouna Foutsou, who, disclosed that they are many areas notably under projects like PIFMAS, PAJER U, the 3 year youth development plan from which the ex-fighters can easily get jobs or money to finance their projects.
The session comes on the heels of repeated strike actions notably from the DDR centrs in the two Angglophone regions wherein the ex-fighters have repeatedly complained of poor living conditions, prolong delays in their reinsertion programme and failed promises made to them by government.
These repeated tensions at the centres were quelled by the timely intervention of the PM as he cajoled the irate fighters with cash aimed at assisting in their feeding as well as facilitate the issuance of their vital identification documents.
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