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United States has pledged a $5million contribution to the Nigeria led Multinational Joint Task force fighting Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast and some parts of the West Africa sub-region.
The U.S embassy in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday said it announced $5million contribution and not $10million as reported by the media.
Leader of the U.S government delegation to the African Union Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Assistant Secretary, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, while responding to a question said: “We have been working with Nigeria, as well as the other countries in the region, to address their concerns about Boko Haram. This is because we don’t see this as just a Nigeria problem.
“And with the new government, we are having discussions with them on how we might bolster our support. That said, we have already been working with them on providing information, providing some training and support, and we look to, with this new administration, to see how we might increase the level of support that we are providing to Nigeria.
“At the same time, we have just announced since I have been here at the AU, a $5 million contribution to the Multinational Task Force. This is funding going to the AU. We are also providing some equipment and support, and we had a number of meetings with the countries who are members of the Multinational Task Force to look at other areas that we might support.”
Source – The Nation
