...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
report presented to the UN Security Council revealed Nigeria paid ransom to free scores of female students kidnapped in Dapchi, Yobe State, Nigeria's Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, has insisted no ransom was paid.
Over 100 girls were kidnapped from the Dapchi school by a Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...faction in February this year with about 105 of them later released by the terrorists. One of them, Leah Sharibu, who reportedly refused to denounce her Christian faith, is still with the abductors.
Upon their release, Mr Mohammed told Nigerians that no ransom was paid for the girls. He said the kidnap "became a moral burden on the abductors."
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
a report submitted to the UN Security Council showed that a "large ransom" was paid to free the girls.
"In Nigeria, 111 schoolgirls from the town of Dapchi were kidnapped on 18 February 2018 and released by ISWAP on 21 March 2018 in exchange for a large ransom payment," the report stated.
The report said such ransom and the predominance of cash economy was providing oxygen for the insurgency around the Lake Chad region.
The UN report described as the 22nd Report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team related to Resolution 2368 (2017) regarding Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
in Iraq and the Levant - ISIS - (Da'esh), al-Qaeda and associated individuals and entities.
Excerpts of the report were published by the News Agency of Nigeria, which stated that the report was signed by Edmund Fitton-Brown, Coordinator, Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, who said the report was "comprehensive and independent", and Kairat Umarov, Chair, Security Council Committee.