NIGERIA HIRES MISSIONARIES TO FIGHT BOKO HARAM.

About 100 South African retired military men are ‘actively’ involved in the Nigerian offensive against Boko Haram insurgents in the north east of the country, reports said.
The problem however is that they may not be here legally: they are mercenaries as the country’s defence minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has said they should be arrested on their return to the country.
TimesLive.co.za quoted the minister saying: “There are consequences when somebody leaves the country and provides any form of military assistance that is not part of the government’s deployment.”
Mapisa-Nqakula added that the police and prosecuting authority should make examples of the group by charging them under the regulation on Foreign Military Assistance Act.
She also said no South African National Defence Force member was deployed to Nigeria and her country had not received an official request for assistance or weapons.
The Nigerian Weekly Trust newspaper said the South African military experts are former soldiers of the SA Defence Force, the predecessor of the SA National Defence Force.