Nigeria paying foreign soldiers N146m monthly to fight terrorists

According to reports, Nigeria is paying soldiers

from Chad and Niger N146.25m monthly to fight
Boko Haram terrorists.
The funds are meant for use as pocket and
feeding allowances for the foreign troops, Punch
reports.
Chad’s 2500 deployed soldiers get N112.5m
monthly while the 750 soldiers from Niger get
N33.75m.
This is however said to be separate from other
funds used for fuelling the operational vehicles
of the foreign troops and other logistics.
“Although, it is a joint operation, a kind of sub-
regional collaborative effort, Nigeria is the only
country funding the operations. The arrangement
is not such that each participating country funds
its defence forces deployed for the operation,” a
source told Punch.
“Nigeria is funding the operation to the extent of
providing the allowances for all the Chadian and
Nigerien troops involved. Apart from that, the
country is also providing for the feeding of these
troops and fuelling all their operational vehicles,”
the source added.
Earlier reports had it that Nigeria had also
employed the services of foreign mercenaries
from South Africa and Ukraine to fight the
terrorists at the cost of $400 a day.
Chad, Niger and Cameroon deployed soldiers to
Nigeria as part of a multinational force
constituted to fight against Boko Haram.