Boko Haram has been
forced to produce its own fuel to power its motorbikes because of an acute
petrol shortage caused by a military squeeze on supply lines.
A senior military source said the Islamists
were paying huge sums of money for jerrycans of fuel while a woman who recently
escaped from the group said they were making groundnut oil into biodiesel.
“Boko Haram were paying
outrageous sums to get fuel and the incredible profit margin made young men
defy the risk and take fuel to them,” said the source in the Borno state
capital, Maiduguri. “The cutting off of fuel supplies has badly crippled Boko
Haram and that has been made possible by blocking all identified supply routes
and the crackdown on the suppliers,” he told AFP.
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