Nigeria’s Boko Haram group was paid more than $12 million before releasing a French Roman Catholic priest kidnapped in November last year, a Cameroonian bi-weekly newspaper L’Oeil du Sahel reported on Monday.
The radical Islamist sect also secured the freedom of one of its jailed members in northern Cameroon, the paper reported.
The claim that has also been reported in a French daily, Le Jour.
Fr Georges Vandenbeusch, 42, was released by the Islamist sect about a week ago in northern Cameroon, about 30 kilometres from Nigeria.
However, French authorities declined to provide details on how the release was secured.
It has been reported that a Boko Haram member, Kanuri Djida Umar, is now in the country’s capital Yaoundé after being freed from a Cameroonian jail, a condition laid down by the sect.
Boko Haram fears Umar will be hunted down by Nigerian authorities if he returns home, it was claimed.
President Paul Biya’s administration is yet to respond to these claims.
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