Boko Haram militants who kidnapped around 300 mainly Christian school girls over a year ago should be forgiven for their actions, according to one of victims wh
Deborah, 19, managed to flee on the night of the attack as the Islamist insurgents drove them into the bush after ambushing her school in Chibok.
"It is by showing them what they are doing wrong. Most of them are illiterate. Thay don't know what they are doing," she said, according to the Times.
"Some of them are in these gangs because of poverty. So by giving them a job, making them realise that these things are not good, this is the best way, I think, to help them."
Despite Deborah's call for forgivness, Nigeria's new president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari has promised to act with force against the deteriorating security situation in the country's northeast, where Boko Haram leads the increasingly violent insurgency.
276 of the girls are still missing, feared dead or sold as slaves.
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