The way Boko Haram operates can only be linked to a good source of funding from different places, in 2002, it was reported by some United States intelligence analysts that the sect received $3m from Osama bin Laden.
Laden had sent an aide, Mohammed Ali to Nigeria with the money to share the money to the group and teach them the Qaeda’s goal of imposing Islamic rule. It was seed money that started the activities of the sect. It was Mohammed Yusuf who started this sect in 2002, here in Nigeria.
Yusuf was killed in 2009 in a police custody. The report believes that Boko have a strong link to al Qaeda’s North African affiliate. Some groups believe that this link is deeper than the initial seed money that was given to the group by Laden.
Bin had come to know Ali when he was still in Sudan in the 90s and it was when Ali had traveled with Laden to Afghanistan that this money was provided to the Nigerian violent sect in 2002, which was used to fund a wide array of Salafist political organisations to help spread al-Qaeda’s ideology.
Ali was eventually killed when he joined Boko some years back.
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