Boko Haram Pays N500,000, Increase In money If Bombs Kills More ................

Gang members of the dreaded Boko Haram sects have revealed that recruits from Niger Republic are paid N500,000 by the terrorists.
These recruits, in their teens aside from Niger Republic also come from Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad talk about what they do when enlisted.

According to one of the gang members: “We break into houses for cash; sometimes we beat people for money, we steal their animals so we can eat and then we gather up and take Tramol [an opiate drug], smoke ganja [marijuana] and drink alcohol.”

The gang member revealed why they have resorted into violence said: “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.”

The recruits, barely in their teens, however have an increase in their money should their bombs kill more people in Nigeria, the BBC has said.
The BBC documentary on Boko Haram, entitled ‘Niger hit by Nigeria’s Boko Haram fallout’ yesterday focused on young boys of a Niger Republic border town with Nigeria, Diffa. In their hangout, the gang explained their association with the sect. “They have paid 500,000 Nigerian naira ($3,085, £1,835) to those of us who followed them over there. The rest of us, here, we give them information. When they come, we inform them about what’s going on, what the security forces are up to. If they tell you to set off a bomb and it succeeds, if it kills a lot of people, they will pay you a lot of money,”one of the young men said.

Five members of this gang in Diffa, near the border, have joined the group; two have since been killed on operations, he said.

But the ideals for which Boko Haram is fighting – the imposition of strict Sharia, an Islamist caliphate and the banning of Western education – hold no interest for the gang, the report continued.

The gang who however did not support Boko Haram's ideology of opposing anything western and the sect's reason for fighting rather they said: “We only do it for the money.”

One of the gang members said, “Boko Haram Islamist militants from Nigeria regularly come across the border, looking for recruits. We can’t contact them, they come to us.”

The young gang members also showed BBC a stash of machetes, knives, knuckle-dusters and traditional axes. They also claimed to have firearms and grenades but refused to show them.