A United States Congressman, Scott Perry, said that America’s aid agency, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), funded terrorist groups across the world, including Boko Haram.
The Republican lawmaker representing Pennsylvania made the allegation at the inaugural hearing of the subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Thursday, February 13.
The session, which was to look into the alleged misappropriation of taxpayer funds, was titled: “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud.”
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Perry in a video shared by former Nigerian presidential aide, Reno Omokri, said: “Who gets some of that money? Does that name ring a bell to anybody in the room? Because your money, your money, $697 million annually, plus the shipments of cash funds in Madrasas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Khorasan, terrorist training camps. That’s what it’s funding.”
The subcommittee disclosed on its website that it was ready to actively work with President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency to shore up the vulnerable payment system, root out waste and probe schemes that defraud taxpayers.
Perry’s allegation came barely two months after Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Christopher Musa, called on the United Nations to investigate the funding and training of the terrorist groups in Nigeria. The defence chief alleged that some Boko Haram members who have surrendered came with hard currency and questioned where they got them.
