This is according to a statement signed by
US Department of State spokesperson, Ned Price.
“The United States is designating six
individuals for their support of the terrorist group Boko Haram,” the statement
said.
“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.”
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