UN, JTF Sign Pact To End Recruitment Of Children
By Independent The United Nations (UN) and Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) weekend, signed an action plan to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children in the armed conflict in the North-East. The CJTF is a youth vigilance group established by the government and people of Borno State at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency to tackle the Boko Haram insurgents. The group, which is made up of volunteers, has been accused alongside the warring Boko Haram sect of recruiting children in the ongoing insurgency in the North-east. In order to set the record straight, the group signed an action plan with the United Nations supervised by the Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Usman Durkwa, at the Pinnacle Hotel, Maiduguri. According to the plan, CJTF will identify and release all children within its ranks and instruct its members not to recruit or use children in the future. CJTF president Lawan Jaffar and the UNICEF country representative Mohamed Fall c