Revealed! Boko Haram launches new recruitment strategy

– The Boko Haram recruits Nigerian youth by giving them cash as a loan

– The army says that the beneficiaries later choose either joining the group or risk being killed if they fail to pay back

The Nigerian army has revealed a new strategy of the Boko Haram sect for recruiting unsuspecting youths into their membership.

Defence Headquarters in a statement signed by Rabe Abubakar brigadier general acting director saud that the group has resorted to providing loans to young entrepreneurs and skilled workers in the North East as a way of inducing them for recruitment.

 

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The statement reads: “The major targets of the unholy business engagement are youths in the North East, especially the butchers, traders, tailors, beauticians and other vocational entrepreneurs who could be easily enticed with such loan without paying attention to sundry inherent dangers associated with the acceptance of such goodies from this satanic group or unfamiliar source.

“After such loans, the beneficiaries are given the option of either joining the group or risk being killed if they fail to pay the loan as at when due, whereas the payment has been surreptitiously programmed to fail by the benefactor, the Boko Haram.

“It is pertinent to state that having been effectively decimated and degraded, the remnant or surviving splinter groups of Boko Haram are desperate to recruit more people into their ranks and files as a result of sustained onslaught against them by the troops.”

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Mr. Abubakar urged Nigerians, particularly those in the North East, to be weary and conscious of different tactics of the desperate Boko Haram.

Only after the Chibok abduction Boko Haram started using women in operations, including the wives of slain or arrested militants and beggars who were offered a “few naira notes.”

Over the past year, the fighters have been largely pushed back from the territory they were holding in north-east Nigeria.

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