WHY US HASNT RELEASED THE $7m REWARD PROMISED ON SHEKAU

THE United States of America, USA, yesterday, stated why it was yet to release the $7 million bounty it placed on the head of the leader of the Boko Haram Islamist sect, Abubakar Shekau. This is coming 10 days after the Joint Task Force announced that the sect leader had died from gunshot wounds he sustained in an encounter with the task force on June 30.

Explaining why the US was yet to redeem its pledge on the reward for killing the Boko Haram leader, outgoing Ambassador of the US to Nigeria, Terence McCulley, told newsmen shortly after his visit to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, in Abuja, that his country was not fully satisfied with Nigeria’s war against terrorism.

He said: “I can say you are talking about the Reward for Justice Programme, which indeed offers a reward for help in apprehending the leader of Boko Haram.

“But I can’t say that the United States has been very satisfied with the work that has been done in helping to counter the threat of violent extremism in the region.
“But we certainly salute the work that Nigeria has done as a regional leader to contain the spread of violent extremism.”
culled from the VANGUARD*