According to reports, Nigeria is paying soldiers from Chad and Niger N146.25m monthly to fight Boko Haram terrorists.
The funds are meant for use as pocket and feeding allowances for the foreign troops, Punch reports.
Chad’s 2500 deployed soldiers get N112.5m monthly while the 750 soldiers from Niger get N33.75m.
This is however said to be separate from other funds used for fuelling the operational vehicles of the foreign troops and other logistics.
“Although, it is a joint operation, a kind of sub-regional collaborative effort, Nigeria is the only country funding the operations. The arrangement is not such that each participating country funds its defence forces deployed for the operation,” a source told Punch.
“Nigeria is funding the operation to the extent of providing the allowances for all the Chadian and Nigerien troops involved. Apart from that, the country is also providing for the feeding of these troops and fuelling all their operational vehicles,” the source added.
Earlier reports had it that Nigeria had also employed the services of foreign mercenaries from South Africa and Ukraine to fight the terrorists at the cost of $400 a day.
Chad, Niger and Cameroon deployed soldiers to Nigeria as part of a multinational force constituted to fight against Boko Haram.
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