Nigeria, July 8 -- The Senate on Tuesday urged the federal government to end the practice of pardoning and rehabilitating repentant members of the Boko Haram sect into society.

The upper chamber made the resolution after the majority of the lawmakers supported it through voice votes during the plenary while considering a motion on the abduction and killing of a retired major general, Rabe Abubakar, and other military officers by bandits.

The motion was sponsored by Abdulaziz Yar'Adua, the senator representing Katsina Central Senatorial District.

During the debate, the senator representing Edo Central, Joseph Ikpea, proposed an additional prayer calling for the abolition of the rehabilitation programme for repentant Boko Haram members....