“We don’t pay rewards to terrorists... The fact is that we are looking for information and when we get the information we will carefully vet it before reward is ever paid out: to be absolutely sure that the people who are worthy of the awards are not connected with terrorist organisations and they don’t ever get a cent of this money.”Kurt Rice spoke at a joint tele-news conference with David Gilmour, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs.
During the conference which was aired to audiences in Abuja, Lagos, Accra in Ghana, Dakar in Senegal and Niamey in Niger Republic, Kurt Rice also explained that the highest bounty of $7m was placed on Shekau because the US had “seen increases in the terrorist capabilities of the Boko Haram” under him.
On why they placed money reward for the arrest of terrorists leaders, he said “The whole exercise is to bring these people before American courts or of partner nations."
He also explained that the intent of the U.S. in offering the rewards through the Justice Programme was “to work with our Nigerian partners to try and make a more stable and secure area.”
kurt Rice expressed the hope that the capture of Shekau would “check” the deadly attacks by Boko Haram in the Northern part of Nigeria, added that the US had through the Justice programme had paid out $125m (about N19.8bn) to more than 80 people, who provided information leading to the arrests of terrorists since 1984.
What this is means is that anyone who actually provide relevant information will get the money.
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