Nigeria Senate has summoned the current National Security Adviser, NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Adeola Ajayi, Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, Major General Emmanuel Undiandeye following the allegations made on Friday February 14, 2025 at the United States Congress by a US Congressman, Scott Perry that the US government is funding Boko Haram among other terrorist organisations in the world through the United States Aid for International Development, USAID, this he said, less than 3 years after former Nigeria Chief Security Officer, Hamza Al-Mustapha on December 06, 2022, as a Guest at the “Reality Radio and Television Magazine Program” produced by the Brekete Family alleged that Boko Haram insurgency is a product of foreign interest for the purpose of exporting an unannounced most expensive mineral resource in the world, Californium stone that is abundantly found in Borno State used by world powers to produce Nuclear weapons with emphasis that the Boko Haram activities are funded by foreign interests under the guise of Non Governmental Organisations, NGOs who do come to Borno with the pretense that they are helping the people to fight against poverty and poor healthcare but at the dead of the nights, the foreign NGO officials alone do go to dangerous places in Borno state where Nigeria soldiers dare not go even at day time.

Vanguard Newspaper reported that the Senate invited the Intelligency chiefs just as President Bola Tinubu and Senate President Godswill Akpabio met last night at the presidential villa to discuss the matter.

Californium was discovered in 1950 by Albert Ghiorso and Glenn T Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley and was named after the state of California and the university where it was discovered, and Californium stone is used for Nuclear explosives which Boko Haram in 2010 almost on daily basis was bombing Nigeria capital city, Abuja when the then National Security Adviser, Owoye Azazi who later died in Helicopter crash that Boko Haram has foreign support, well trained, funded and enjoyed patronage of some politicians like the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who he alleged was aiding and abetting Boko Haram over internal wrangling in the then ruling party.

When the Chibok girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the then Nigeria First Lady, Patience Jonathan obviously acting on privileged and security intelligence, apparently accused the people in the North Eastern part of Nigeria that they knew what they are doing and that the blood of innocent people they are sharing in the region is enough.

The US government led by then President Barack Obama apparently believed members of the Boko Haram group to be protesters or freedom fighters, and Barack Obama always blamed the Boko Haram insecurity on bad governance in Nigeria until US Congressmen and women mounted consistent pressure on him to declare the Boko Haram insurgency an international terrorist organisation which Barack Obama eventually did in June 2012 after Boko Haram had bombed United Nations, UN Headquarters in Abuja in 2011.

In June, the US State Department announced the designations for the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau as well as Abubakar Adam Kambar and Khalid al-Barnawi. Kambar and Barnawi were said to be linked to Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al-Qaeda’s north African branch.

Barack Obama while designating the Boko Haram as an International terrorist organisation, according to a press statement made available to newsmen by the Whitehouse, indicated and stated that “the designation is significant because it directs US law enforcement and regulatory agencies to block business and financial transactions with Boko Haram, which is fighting to impose Islamic law in northern Nigeria and has ties to al Qaeda. Boko Haram means “Western education is sacrilege. The move makes it a crime under US law to provide “material support” to the group”.

Although the US government never named the businesses of the Boko Haram and their accounts or savings assets in the United States, the then leader of the Boko Haram insurgency, Abubakar Shekau in reaction claimed he has no business interests in the United States but the government of President Muhammadu Buhari said there were over 100 Boko Haram sponsors with linked to 10 countries.

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in March 2021 said the Nigerian Government arrested operators of 400 Bureaux De Change for allegedly funding Boko Haram insurgency in the country, saying the suspects were transferring money to the terrorists and the statement was widely reported by Nigeria newspapers.

US Congressman, Scott Perry on Friday claimed that USAID had funded terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram.

Perry, a Republican representing Pennsylvania, made the claim during the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on 14 February 2025.

The session, titled, ‘The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,’ focused on allegations of financial mismanagement within US foreign aid programmes.

“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.

The call for an urgent investigation into allegations of terror financing against USAID followed a motion raised by Senator Ali Ndume on the urgent need to probe the matter.

During the plenary, lawmakers expressed concerns over a viral video of a US Congressman, Scott Perry, who alleged that USAID has been involved in financing terrorist groups across the world, including Boko Haram.

Ndume noted that this claim comes shortly after the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, raised alarm that terrorist groups in the country were receiving sponsorship and training from international organisations.

The freeze in aid funding by Donald Trump’s new US administration has left humanitarian workers seeing a large proportion of their budget cut off and fearing millions will be affected as programmes are suspended.

On January 24, four days after Trump returned to power, NGOs linked to the USAID received a first letter asking them to cease all activities funded by the agency.

A week later, a second letter, seen by AFP, authorised them to resume certain missions intended for “life-saving humanitarian assistance”. But the terms used are vague and the NGOs say they feel lost.

The new administration has launched stinging attacks on USAID — which Trump claimed was “run by radical lunatics” and his ally and advisor, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, has described as a “criminal organisation”.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now its acting director, vowing to put an end to its “insubordination”.

Global and regional NGOs told AFP in interviews that the effect to their work has been immediate and warned the move could also erode US influence worldwide.

BBC on 20 July 2015 had reported that the US President, Barack Obama has pledged to support his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari in the fight against Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

In the first meeting between the two since Mr Buhari’s election, Mr Obama said the Nigerian leader had a “very clear agenda” for defeating extremism.

The US has committed $5 million to the fight against Boko Haram since Mr Buhari came to power.

The jihadists have killed thousands in north-east Nigeria since 2009.

Speaking after the two met at the White House, Mr Obama called Nigeria one of the most important countries on the African continent and praised Mr Buhari for tackling corruption, an issue which compromised Washington’s relationship with the Nigerian leader’s predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.

Boko Haram has carried out attacks in northern Nigeria since its insurgency began in 2009, most notably the April 2014 kidnapping of 276 Nigerian school girls who are still missing.

President Obama’s wife Michelle got involved in an online campaign to draw attention to the girls’ plight, #BringBackOurGirls, and the US sent surveillance flights over Nigeria to help locate them.

However, the US refuses to sell weapons to Nigeria because of concerns over its army’s human rights record, BBC reported.

Meanwhile, the former Presidential candidate of Action Alliance (AA) and former Chief Security Officer to the Late General Sani Abacha, retired Major-General Hamza Al-mustapha, claimed that Borno state has a highly radioactive element, Californium in abundance.

According to Hamza Al-Mustapha, the said precious stone, Californium is responsible for the Boko Haram insurgency and other security challenges bedeviling the state for more than a decade.  

The 62-year-old retired military officer said Nigerians should visit Google and search for the price of californium element which is worth $27 million per gram.

In the viral video of the radio programme, Almustapha further alleged that the environmental degradation in the form of oil spillage and pollution that has been disturbing the oil-rich Niger Delta region is nothing but a ‘game plan’ orchestrated by powerful forces in order to satisfy their self-centered interests.