Nigeria: Boko Haram Using “Child Soldiers” As Seen In Latest Video

Nov. 10, 2013

NewsRescue– The latest 33 second video purported to have been released by Boko Haram Nigerian terrorist group, shows at least 2 child soldiers. The 33 second clip published only by AFP, which had a Shekau impostor making a quick 10 second appearance, also showed two attack trucks with at least one observable child-solider aboard each truck.

Boko Haram has been known to use children in its campaigns of terror. Many of these young lads are abducted by force and sometimes paid under threat sums as little as N5000 to help the terrorists burn down schools and other public buildings, as an earlier report in the Punch detailed. As the Nigerian army and Civilian JTF clamps down on the terrorists, it is sad but not surprising that they are employing child soldiers to supplement their broken and depleted maniacal army.

The 33 second video which attempted to show Abubakar Shekau as alive as been debunked as another in a series of woefully fake videos which only support the Nigerian security assessment that Shekau is either dead or morbidly injured.

Some of the 58 women and children released by military authorities in Maiduguri and Damaturu. {Punch}
Some of the 58 women and children released by military authorities in Maiduguri and Damaturu. {Punch}

Punch June 1, 2013:

Some kid suspects released by military authorities in Maiduguri on Friday said the Boko Haram sect paid them N5,000 each to burn primary schools and spy on soldiers.  They were among 23 women and 35 children released to the governors of Borno and Yobe states…