Boko Haram Fighters Get $3,000 Daily Allowance- Mohammed Declares

Member of the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative (PCNI),  Sidi Ali Mohammed says that  Boko Haram fighters were being paid $3,000 daily compared to Nigerian troops ₦1,000 daily.

Ali made this known while speaking at the Presentation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sub-Sahara Africa’s Economic Outlook Report, in Abuja on Monday.

He revealed that Boko Haram has been hijacked and operates like a cartel.

In his word, the Head of the Humanitarian Assistance and Rehabilitation arm of the PCNI said; “I will give you an example. The Nigerian military, for example, gets ₦1, 000 per day for being in the North East, at the war front, as an allowance.

“The same North East, where if you are a member of Boko Haram you get $3,000 per day as allowance. So it is lucrative.

“Sometimes they even give you money upfront. So we must do something about the youths from where they are recruiting.”

“If it is amnesty that will guarantee that peace, then we have to think of it.

“Most importantly, we need to deplete the army of youths on the streets and take them away from the streets so that Boko Haram does not recruit them.

“Don’t forget, they (Boko Haram members) are being killed on a daily basis but they are also recruiting on a daily basis. They are getting people to recruit because it is lucrative.”

He further stated the Boko Haram menace “is like guerilla warfare. As we are here discussing, if somebody here is a member of Boko Haram, he will not say anything.

“He goes out there to strategise and comes back. It, therefore, means the conventional ways of fighting warfare cannot work here. It, therefore, calls for thinking outside of the box.”

He added: “Part of the reason why this problem has refused to go away is the abundant natural resources in the Lake Chad Region. We need to think outside the box. It is now more like a cartel.

“When you see the type of weapons they use, it is more sophisticated than the type of weapons that our military are using.”

This is coming as some troops have expressed their dissatisfaction towards the welfare system of the Nigerian Army.

Recall that Naija News had reported that a soldier of the Nigerian Army had threatened to Pull out of the military.

The soldier said he was going to quit the military as he claims that what he gets from the military is nothing compared to the risk he goes through to protect the boundaries and the interest of the nation and populace in general.