{"id":201372,"date":"2014-07-04T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/exposed-how-boko-haram-moves-cash-inside-nigeria-to-perpetrate-terror-attacks\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:23:00","slug":"exposed-how-boko-haram-moves-cash-inside-nigeria-to-perpetrate-terror-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/07\/04\/exposed-how-boko-haram-moves-cash-inside-nigeria-to-perpetrate-terror-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED: How Boko Haram Moves Cash Inside Nigeria To Perpetrate Terror Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"open-news__txt_block clearfix open-news__txt\" readability=\"43\">\n<p><strong>Following the unabated terror attacks being perpetrated by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, across Nigeria, Reuters has published a report that explains how Boko Haram insurgents move cash around Nigeria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, when the US imposed sanctions on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in June 2012, the terrorists leader dismissed it as an empty gesture.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that two years later, Shekau\u2019s skepticism appears well founded as the militant group is now the biggest security threat to Africa\u2019s top oil producer, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Boko Haram is now richer than ever, more violent and its abductions of women and children continue with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigation carried out by Reuters, more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials who closely follow Boko Haram provide the most complete picture to date of how Boko Haram finances its activities.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the United States, Nigeria and others in the international communities struggle to track and choke off its funding,<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that central to the militant group\u2019s approach includes using hard-to-track human couriers to move cash, relying on local funding sources and engaging in only limited financial relationships with other extremists groups.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorists group is also said to have reaped millions from high-profile kidnappings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/07\/9687abuja_blast_4.jpg\" vspace=\"5\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"* Scene of bomb blast in Abuja\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" border=\"0\" data-zoom=\"1\" \/><span class=\"open-news__jsreadmore\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        Update this news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Following the unabated terror attacks being perpetrated by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}