UNICEF Chief of Maiduguri Field Office, Phuong Nguyen, in a statement yesterday in the Borno State capital, confirmed: “Guterres credited the delisting to a significant reduction in the number of children recruited into the ranks of the CJTF and the armed group’s commitment.”
“This is to stop the recruitment and use of children in conflicts,” Nguyen restated in the statement. Besides, Nguyen added that since signing the agreement, the body has released more than 2,000 children from its ranks. She lamented the recruitment of 3,500 children by parties to the conflict between 2013 and 2020, observing that girls and boys have been used as suicide bombers, spies, labourers, cooks, messengers and wives.
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