There has been some shocking reports about some Boko Haram insurgents being Christians.
According to a report obtained by Radio France International, Nigerian researchers met in Paris this week
at the European Conference on African Studies and took
part in a round table entitled
“Within and around Boko Haram in Nigeria”
where it was revealed that most people terrorizing the
continent are from the Christian community.
The report authored by a certain Daniel Finnan claimed
that, their decision to join the violent group was due to
lack of jobs and the money involved. According to the
report,
“The real problem of Boko Haram is that no one has
actually infiltrated them or if they have, they haven’t come
out, or they’ve joined them. So the level of knowledge
about the insides of Boko Haram is remarkedly small.”
On how many Christians that were forced to join the
bloodthirsty group, the report claimed, “It’s almost
certainly bound to be about 5,000, but some people put the
numbers up way higher.
The other problem is that of course as far as we know it’s
quite a good job, at one point you could be paid 400 dollars
a month for just simply joining them, you wouldn’t have to
go fighting, you would spend your first months doing
logistics or training.
It's quite profitable joining Boko Haram because you not
only loot places, but you share the loot out at the end.
And the third point that I think is important to realise is
that there are plenty of Christians who are part of Boko
Haram because it’s a job”.