There are a lot of viral online claims that the federal government is planning to give repentant Boko Haram members the sum of N150,000 each as monthly salaries.
The Presidency has denied report making the rounds that the Federal Government is planning to start paying repented Boko Haram members N150,000 monthly.
Presidency Denies Plan To Start Paying Repentant Boko Haram Members N150k Monthly 1
Reports had on Thursday emerged on social media that the government was making plans to pay rehabilitated Boko Haram members N150k monthly.
However, Bashir Ahmad, the Personal Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, described the report as fake news, adding that it should be disregarded.
Ahmad, who reacted on his Twitter page, said the report was far from the truth and Nigerians should not believe everything they read without asking the poster to provide a credible source of the story.
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