The Victims Support Fund (VSF), has commended the ongoing surrender by insurgents and promised to assist in area of social cohesion.

The Executive Director of VSF, Prof. Nana Tanko, who spoke to newsmen on the development on Friday in Maiduguri, said that VSF has over the years been working to ensure social cohesion in returnee communities displaced by insurgency and would do same in resettlement of victims identified among the surrendered insurgents.

“We want to commend the government of Borno over the recent surrender.

“We are standing by to see how through our social cohesion project can help communities handle some of the returnee victims.

“I call them victims because some of them taken to the other side are real victims,” Tanko said.

Tanko noted that one of the rehabilitation centres being used for keeping some of repentant Boko Haram members was reconstructed with support from VSF.

She explained that at the community level, the VSF had trained people known as Network of Peace Builders to foster dialogue among communities as the state government commenced resettlement of displaced persons back to their recovered ancestral land.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tanko, in Maiduguri to present starter-packs to 52 trained out-of-school youths who are dependants of the 100 District Heads of Borno Emirate killed by insurgents, said the gesture is to ensure the dependants’ employability and to support them towards setting up income-generating activities.

The beneficiaries were trained in carpentry, masonry, tailoring and shoe making.