Nigeria: Boko Haram - Catch Shekau, Get N1.1 Billion - U.S.

4 June 2013

Lagos — THE United States took an unprecedented step, yesterday, when it posted a price tag of $23million, an equivalent of N3.3 billion on the head of top Al- Qaeda-linked terrorists in Nigeria and West Africa. Nigeria's Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, attracts the highest reward of $7 million (N1.1 billion) for anybody that can provide information that can lead to his capture.

The $23 million reward money shelled out by the US include the sum of $5 million placed on Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the Algerian-based Al-Qaeda, who led the hostages attack in Southern Algerian town of Menas in February 2013. He was later reported to have been killed by Chadian troops in Mali.

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