Boko Haram has devised new methods of recruiting unsuspecting youth into its fold
by providing them with business loans.
Defence Headquarters (DHQ) revealed this in a statement on Wednesday, from DHQ spokesman, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, which asserted that the group uses
secret means to provide loans to young entrepreneurs and artisans in the North East
as a way of inducing them for recruitment.
THE WILL reports that, 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,”
the statement read.
“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.”
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