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       Boko Haram:Why US hasn¡¯t released $7m reward promised on Shekau
        ¨C Envoy
       By: goodluck Date: August 29, 2013, 7:19 am
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       By goodluck & wapmost, with agency reports
       ABUJA ¡ª 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
       hesustained in an encounter with thetask force on June 30.
       In June 2012, the US Department of State had designated Shekau a
       terrorist and froze his assets in America, while offering a $7
       millionreward for his capture.
       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.
       Abubakar Shekau
       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
       regionalleader to contain the spread of violent extremism.¡±
       He assured that fight against violent extremism would continue
       not only in Nigeria but any country or region that is faced with
       the menace.
       McCulley said: ¡°We have strongly criticised the violence
       perpetrated by Boko Haram and we have called for measures
       targeted at checkmating this threat.
       ¡°And we express our hope that going forward, the government of
       Nigeria will be able to contain the threat posed by Boko
       Haram.¡±
       Residents to sue FG
       Meanwhile, Borno State residents have threatened to sue the
       Federal Government and its security agencies for detaining their
       relatives and making them inaccessible.
       The residents, through a human rights group, Civil Rights
       Congress of Nigeria, led by Sheu Sani in Kano, said security
       forces in the state were carrying out night raidsin residential
       neighborhoods.
       According to AFP report, distraughtrelatives have, therefore,
       asked the army, the police, intelligence services and government
       officials where the arrested people were tono avail and that no
       one even knows, or is saying, how many people have been
       detained.
       The rights group said it had received about 3,000 calls from
       people across northern Nigeria, that loved ones had disappeared
       after being arrested by the military or police in the past three
       years.
       Sani said: ¡°If we go to the police, the police will say that
       they are not with them but may be with the military. The
       military will say they must be with the intelligence service.
       ¡°The intelligence service say they don¡¯t keep detainees ¡ª
       even though they do¡ª that they hand them over to police. So
       there is thiscycle of confusion. The conditions in which people
       are being detained is very secretive.¡±
       ¡°My 3 children missing¡±
       One Habiba Saadu said his two sons and her daughter were takenon
       August 3 by soldiers that went from house to house in a night
       raid in Maiduguri, accusing them of participating in the Boko
       Haram uprising.
       ¡°Up to now, I have never seen my children,¡± Saadu said.
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