{"id":152127,"date":"2025-02-21T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president"},"modified":"2025-02-22T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:57:04","slug":"usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president","title":{"rendered":"USAID terror funding claim belated \u2013 Ex-CAN President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev Samson Ayokunle, says a claim by United States Congressman Scott Perry that the US Agency for International Development, USAID, funded terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram, is coming late.<\/p>\n<p>Ayokunle stated this on the Friday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will blame the international community, especially the United States Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they knew this truth a long time ago, why are they coming out now? Is it not almost too late? Why did they allow this type of thing to be done to Nigeria?\u201d, he asked.<\/p>\n<p>The cleric said CAN had raised the alarm that terrorist organisations in Nigeria have foreign sponsors and a steady supply of cash and arms but the Christian body was misinterpreted.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the US congressman\u2019s allegations should not be swept under the carpet.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-CAN president berated the poor intelligence of the security agencies, saying they failed to identify the source of terror funding till the revelation by the US congressman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev Samson Ayokunle, says a claim by United States Congressman Scott Perry that the US Agency for International Development, USAID, funded terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram, is coming late. Ayokunle stated this on the Friday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":152126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[663,254,15909,1372],"class_list":["post-152127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-can","tag-nigeria","tag-samson-ayokunle","tag-usaid"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>USAID terror funding claim belated \u2013 Ex-CAN President - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev Samson Ayokunle, says a claim by United States Congre ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"USAID terror funding claim belated \u2013 Ex-CAN President\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev Samson Ayokunle, says a claim by United States Congre ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-21T19:14:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-22T10:57:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740156435.658009.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"838\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"USAID terror funding claim belated \u2013 Ex-CAN President\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-21T19:14:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-22T10:57:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president\"},\"wordCount\":197,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740156435.658009.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CAN\",\"Nigeria\",\"Samson Ayokunle\",\"USAID\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/usaid-terror-funding-claim-belated-ex-can-president\",\"name\":\"USAID terror funding claim belated \u2013 Ex-CAN President - 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