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EXPOSED: USAID Under Barack Obama Funded Boko Haram in Nigeria – US Congressman [VIDEO]
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A US Congressman has revealed that USAID under Barack Obama funded Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Newsone Nigeria reports that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a US aid agency, has been accused by US Congressman, Scott Perry, of funding terrorist organizations, including Boko Haram.
This online news platform understands that Perry, a Republican lawmaker representing Pennsylvania, claimed during the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
The session, titled: “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,” focused on alleged misappropriations of taxpayer funds.
“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,” Perry said.
According to the subcommittee’s website, it will “actively work with President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency to root out waste, shore up vulnerable payment systems, and fully investigate schemes to defraud taxpayers.”
The US Congressman further cited USAID’s reported funding of $136 million for building 120 schools in Pakistan, alleging that there was “zero evidence” of the schools’ construction.
Perry added, ” If you think that the programme under Operation Enduring Sentinel entitled Women’s Scholarship Endowment, which receives $60 million annually, or the Young Women Lead, which gets about $5 million annually, is going to women who, by the way, if you read the Inspector General’s report, is telling you that the Taliban does not
allow women to speak in public, yet somehow you’re believing, and American people are supposed to believe, that this money is going for the betterment of the women in Afghanistan. It is not.
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Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. Photo: (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
“USAID spent $840 million in the last year, the last 20 years, on Pakistan’s education-related programme. It includes $136 million to build 120 schools, of which there is zero evidence that any of them were built. Why would there be any evidence? The Inspector General can’t get in to see them.
“But you know what? We doubled down and spent $20 million from USAID to create educational television programs for children unable to attend the physical school. Yeah, they can’t attend it, because it doesn’t exist. You paid for it.
“Somebody else got the money. You are paying for terrorism. This has got to end.”
Watch the US Congressman’s video on USAID funding Boko Haram below…
US Congressman, Scott Perry says USAID funded Boko Haram, which carried out terror attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. pic.twitter.com/UJuaqWotdP
— Africa Facts Zone (@AfricaFactsZone) February 14, 2025
Meanwhile, Newsone reports that United States President, Donald Trump, had called for the closure of USAID, accusing the agency of corruption in a post on his Truth Social platform.
The move is part of President Trump’s–and his billionaire ally Elon Musk’s–drive to shrink the US government.
Musk, the world’s richest man and owner of the micro-blogging site, X formerly known as Twitter, whom Trump appointed to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, has also criticized USAID, alleging that it engages in rogue operations.
He has called USAID “a viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America” and has vowed to shut it down.
Among other criticisms, Musk has claimed that USAID does “rogue CIA work” and even “funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people.”
Trump said Elon-Musk-led DOGE would “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excessive regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies — essential to the ‘Save America’ movement. This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people!”
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