«NEEM» a United Nations organisation  for rehabilitation of Boko Haram’s victims

By: Ahmed Adel

In March 2015, the Boko Haram group claimed to be a pro-Daesh, and since that time has been practicing the worst forms of terrorism against civilians and militaries in the Sahelian region as a whole, particularly in Nigeria.

Many United Nations humanitarian organizations – operating in Nigeria under the Nigerian Government’s supervision – are trying to contain the effects and consequences of the Boko Haram operations, particularly those where the group abducted girls and minors.

The NEEM charity organization is at the head of these organizations because of its great social and humanitarian role in the Nigerian society. Where many segments of its citizens suffer from Boko Haram terrorism in one way or another.

The role of the organization is to integrate the girls who have been released from Boko Haram and to rehabilitate them psychologically after being apprehended by the terrorists of the terrorist group during their abduction.

Fatima Akilo, a trainer psychologist with the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, director of the NEEM charity organization, said the NSA asked her in 2012 to devise a project to prevent extremism in their country.

Fatima asked Nigeria’s national security to separate the husband from his wife after the arrest of some members of the Boko Haram group and to take the wives of those Boko Haram’s loyalists to her in NEEM organization, which she established in 2016.

The organization’s main objective is to rehabilitate girls in Nigerian society and to give up any aggression against Nigerian military and civilians.

In the same context, Dr. Ayman Shabana, vice president of the Center for Nile Basin Studies at Cairo University, told El Marga’a: That these girls and children were students in Nigerian schools in the town of Chebok in the northeast of the country; where they were kidnapped and subjected to great psychological stress; some were forced to marry (forced marriage).

And some of them were also forced to involve in the suicide bombings, but they did not carry out the process in the end. And some of them were beaten and dragged and raped and defamed, all this caused them to collapse psychologically and mentally.

After their liberation by Nigerian forces, the state worked on their psychological, social and mental rehabilitation before returning to Nigerian society, this is the  role played by humanitarian organizations in Nigeria.