PRESS RELEASE Boko Haram Now Gives Loans To Youth As Bait For Membership

It has come to the knowledge of the
Defence Headquarters that Boko Haram
terrorists have now devised another means
of recruiting unsuspecting youths into their
fold. In this clandestine dispensation, Boko
Haram terrorists have resorted to
providing loans to young entrepreneurs
and artisans in the North East as a way of
inducing them for recruitment.
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. The Defence Headquarters hereby
advises the general public, especially those
in the North East, to constantly be weary
and conscious of various tactics of the
desperate Boko Haram. They should be
guided to avoid loan or financial assistance
from non-conventional source but from
conventional financial institutions such as
banks, organised trade unions or
institutionalised savings and loans
establishments. Acting otherwise may lead
to painful and untimely death from the
blood-thirsty Boko Haram terrorists.
RABE ABUBAKAR Brigadier General Acting
Director Defence Information