An expatriate who deals with Boko Haram has
claimed that the Central bank of Nigeria plays a
major part of the funding of the terrorist
organization.
According to the TheCable, Dr. Stephen Davis
who was hired to negotiate for the release of the
abducted Chibok girls, says the CBN gave the
extremist sect a legal, foolproof way to transfer
funds.
TheCable reports:
TheCable: How did you become involved in the
negotiation for the release of the Chibok
schoolgirls?
Davis: Because I had built trust among the
militants, I made calls to them when I heard
about the abductions. They confirmed to me that
the girls were with them. I came to Nigeria
in late April (the girls were abducted on April 14).
I told the president I would try to intervene and
help get the girls out. He said he would give me
the needed support if I wanted. However, what I
discovered was that thrice we tried to get the girls
released, and thrice my efforts were sabotaged.
That was when I now realised that some
politicians were also involved in the insurgency.
There were the remnants of those involved in the
former peace deal as well as a political arm and
what I call the ritual arm which specialises in
butchering human beings.
While I was making efforts to get the girls
released, the political backers of the group
threatened that if I got 30 or 40 girls out, the
militants would kidnap another 60 to replace
them. I became very frustrated. They threatened
that any commander of the group who agreed to
participate in any dialogue would be slaughtered
by other commanders. The political sponsors are
very powerful because they supply the finances
and the arms. Until they are cut off from the
group, those girls will not be released. We are
talking about 200 Chibok schoolgirls, but there
are over 300 other girls that have been
kidnapped. There are many young men that they
also kidnapped and turned them against their
families. They asked them to go and slaughter
their family members and they are doing it.
Nobody is talking about those ones. They are the
new child soldiers.
TheCable: In all your discussions, did they name
their sponsors?
Davis: They named the man who lives in
Cairo. He is of the Kanuri tribe. He passes arms,
ammunition and uniforms to them. The CBN
official who handles the funding (name withheld
by TheCable for legal reasons) is an uncle to
three of those arrested in connection with the
Nyanya bombings. The three boys lived with him.
They were arrested by the SSS (Department of
State Security) after the bombings but they are
yet to be interrogated about their uncle. The
official still works with the CBN. He is still there.
He works in currency operations. He knows how
to handle the transaction in a way that it can
never be traced. Western countries are frustrated
that they cannot trace the funding. How can they
when it is passed on legally, through the
gatekeeper, through the CBN?
Also, a senior official of CBN, who recently left the
bank, was very close to Sodiq Aminu Ogwuche,
the mastermind of the Nyanya bombings who
also schooled in Sudan. Ogwuche’s wife used to
visit this official in his office at the headquarters
in Abuja before the bombings. They were very
close. Don’t forget that the CBN official who
handles the transactions also used to report to
his superior, the official who recently left the
bank. Also, there is a politician who was
supplying operational vehicles for the suicide
bombers. He gave them Hilux vans. He is a
prominent politician. If the president goes after
these guys, they will say it is political. That is part
of the problem. Everybody will say the
president is going after his political opponents,
especially as there is a general election next year.
The militants also named the former governor of
Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff. In 2003 and 2007,
Sheriff was very close to them. He used them for
his elections. They worked for him. However, in
2007, the leader of the group, Muhammed Yusuf,
collected money from Sheriff in return for
support. Yusuf’s mentor, Ja’afar Mahmud Adam,
exposed and criticised him for collecting money
from Sheriff, and Yusuf ordered his killing in April
2007. But eventually, Yusuf and Sheriff fell out.
However, it is acknowledged that Sheriff was and
is a major financier of the group. He pays for
young men to go for lesser hajj. From there they
are recruited into the group. They interact freely
with the Al-Shabbab militants from Somalia. They
are trained by Al-Shabbab. Some of them go to
Mali for training. These guys are in touch with the
ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,
which now simply calls itself Islamic State and
controls parts of Iraq). They are deadly. They
share the same philosophy.
The militant commanders I spoke with also
named a former army chief as one of their
sponsors. You have senior military officers who
are benefiting from the insurgency because of
the security budget. It pays them to keep the
insurgency going so that they can continue to
make money. I asked them several times who
the army chief was and they told me it is… (name
withheld by TheCable for legal reasons).

God will expose them one after another, the blood of the innocent people shed will never give them rest,the water and blood of their body will work against them. In JESUS name Amen