Boko Haram received cash support of N40 million from an Algerian terrorist group sometime last year, an intelligence report recently submitted to the presidency said, according to news portal Premium Times.
The report, a product of a joint police and military investigations and raids, carried out in Kano and Sokoto in December, indicates that the Algerian group gave the funds as its first installment in a planned long term partnership with Boko Haram.
It said Boko Haram and the unnamed Algerian group have met a number of times in their bid to hammer out modalities for a long term partnership. The document quoted some arrested members of the sect as having made the confession.
The partnership would see the richer, more influential and more organised Algerian gang mentor members of Boko Haram through trainings in activities that will help it fortify its financial base locally.
The Algerian sect is also expected to train the Boko Haram insurgents in hostage taking and weapon handling.
The report provides an insight into how the sect has been funding its activities. It detailed how members of the Boko Haram sect recently got training in kidnapping from the same Algerian terrorist sect.
It listed names of nine members of the sect who had successfully received training in kidnappings, in addition to bomb making skills.
As its part of the deal, Boko Haram is expected to kidnap white foreigners in Abuja and exchange them for more money and arms and ammunitions with the Algerian sect, or demand ransom.
As at the time of the investigation, December 2011, the sect had finalised its kidnap strategy and was scouting for houses to keep the kidnap victims and suitable cars to transport them across the desert.
“They are targeting expatriates from (Julius) Berger, and Dantata and Sawoe as well as other places they could find any,” the report said.
(Premium Times)
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