The United States of America has taken action against six Nigerians convicted of supporting Boko Haram activities in Nigeria.
According to a statement on Friday by the U.S. Department of States, the six persons have been sanctioned and added to the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.
The statement released by the Department of States spokesperson Ned Price further identified the affected persons as Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad.
Price in the statement said the US government will continue to coordinate with regional partners to target those who support terrorism in the region and worldwide.
The sanction is based on Executive Order 13224, as amended, which empowers the American government to sanction persons for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Boko Haram.
The statement reads: “The United States is designating six individuals for their support of the terrorist group Boko Haram.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added Nigerian nationals Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad to the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, pursuant to Executive Order 13224, as amended, for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Boko Haram.
Today’s action follows the United Arab Emirates’ prosecutions, convictions, and designations of these individuals for supporting terrorism. The Department of State designated Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization on November 14, 2013.
The Nigeria-based group is responsible for numerous attacks in the northern and northeastern regions of the country as well as in the Lake Chad Basin in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger that have killed thousands of people since 2009.”
Meanwhile, the troops of the Nigerian Army have killed scores of ISWAP/Boko Haram terrorists hiding in some areas of the Sambisa forest in Borno State.
This was made known on Friday in a statement released via the official Twitter handle of the Nigerian Army which was obtained by our correspondent.
