Jobless youths recruited by Boko Haram, paid $3000 - REPORT

A new report has revealed that non Nigerian youths
are now been
recruited by terrorist sect Boko Haram for a sum of
$3000 or more.
The youths, who
spoke to BBC say
they take the offer
as a result of
joblessness.
Read the full report
below:
YOUNG Nigeriens
at the border town
of Nigeria and Niger Republic, Diffa, have confessed to
be recruits of
the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram.
A member of a gang in Niger told the British
Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) that Boko Haram Islamist militants
from Nigeria
“regularly come across the border, looking for
recruits.”
The gang members, in their 20s, said they were paid
$3,085 (about
N500,000) to join the insurgency and since they were
jobless, they
were willing to take the cash, but with no interest in
protecting Sharia
law.
However, they said they were willing to strike if given
the assignment
to do so, as they blamed their decision to join the
militant group on
their joblessness.
“They have paid Nigerian naira ($3,085, £1,835) to
those of us who
followed them over there,” one of the young men said.
“When they come, we inform them about what’s going
on, what the
security forces are up to.
“We have no jobs; some of us are still at high school,
but we need
money. Violence has become a form of work for us.”
These confessions were revealed in a documentary
published by the
BBC, on Tuesday, after Thomas Fessy, a BBC reporter
visited Diffa
region in Niger Republic.
BBC made contacts with this local gang, who claimed
they
collaborated with Boko Haram and agreed.
According to BBC documentary, five of these young
Nigeriens said
they had already joined the militant Boko Haram sect,
while two other
members were killed in operations.
In total there are about a dozen gang members in a
tiny, dark room,
built with local mud-bricks.
When the reporter asked them: “If you are asked to
launch an attack
here, will you be ready to do that?”
Their response: “Yes, we are ready. We have no job,
so, we are ready.
That is what we are here for.”
When the BBC reporter asked if they agreed with Boko
Haram’s
reason for fighting, they answered in unison: “No. We
only do it for
the money.”