According to reports, Nigeria is paying soldiers from Chad
and Niger N146.25m monthly to fight Boko Haram
terrorists.
The funds are meant for use as pocket and feeding
allowances for the foreign troops, Punch reports.
Chad’s 2500 deployed soldiers get N112.5m monthly while
the 750 soldiers from Niger get N33.75m.
This is however said to be separate from other funds used
for fuelling the operational vehicles of the foreign troops
and other logistics.
“Although, it is a joint operation, a kind of sub-regional
collaborative effort, Nigeria is the only country funding the
operations. The arrangement is not such that each
participating country funds its defence forces deployed for
the operation,” a source told Punch.
“Nigeria is funding the operation to the extent of providing
the allowances for all the Chadian and Nigerien troops
involved. Apart from that, the country is also providing for
the feeding of these troops and fuelling all their operational
vehicles,” the source added.
Earlier reports had it that Nigeria had also employed the
services of foreign mercenaries from South Africa and
Ukraine to fight the terrorists at the cost of $400 a day.
Chad, Niger and Cameroon deployed soldiers to Nigeria
as part of a multinational force constituted to fight against
Boko Haram.
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