Boko Haram establishes recruitment centre, conscripts victims in Niger

The Boko Haram terrorists have established a recruitment centre at Dinallahi village in the neighboring Niger Republic.

The sect that has been dominant in Niger, Nigeria and Chad have facility located 10 kilometres south of Diagorou, in Tillaberi province.

A counter-insurgency expert in Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed, yesterday, in Maiduguri that the terrorists had erected two hangers in the centre.

“The intention of the terror group was to teach extremist views to the boys and girls that are unemployed in the Sahel region,” he noted.

Makama said there has been influx of Boko Haram terrorists fleeing continued Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) onslaughts at Sambisa Forest in Borno State, Northeast of Nigeria.

The development, he added, was resulting in attack and kidnap of many people from Niger Republic who are being conscripted into their terrorism operations.

On the conscription facility, Makama said: “The region serves as a transit point for terrorists and migrants from West Africa, trying to reach Libya, Somalia, Algeria and Europe through the Mediterranean Sea.”