The United States has made good its promise to help Nigeria end
terrorism by offering a $7m (N1.1bn) reward to persons with information
on the whereabouts of the leader of militant islamist sect, Boko
Haram, Abubakar Shekau.
A senior US State Department official, on Monday said, “They’ve had a relationship for some time [with the deadly AQIM]. They send people back and forth for training, they’ve done the provision of arms back and forth."
The $7m is part of the $23m posted on Monday by the US State
Department’s Rewards for Justice programme in rewards to help track down
four other leaders of militant groups such as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb spreading terror in Nigeria and other West African countries.
