Nigeria is strengthening scrutiny of vulnerabilities that could allow resources intended for legitimate humanitarian and non-profit activities to be diverted towards terrorist financing in the North East.
Desk: Defence & Security
Date: Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Time: 22:10 WAT
Location: Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria
The effort is bringing Operation HADIN KAI and the National Technical Risk Assessment Committee on Non-Profit Organisations into closer operational collaboration as authorities work to identify financial and logistical channels that terrorist groups could exploit.
A statement issued by the Acting Military Information Officer, Headquarters Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI, Captain Mohammed Goni, said the Committee's Team Leader, Mrs Ibinabo Amachree, disclosed the development during a visit to Theatre Command OPHK on 19 August as part of Nigeria's 2026 National Technical Risk Assessment of Non-Profit Organisations.
The assessment builds on the 2022 National Risk Assessment and comes ahead of Nigeria's next international evaluation on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing. The earlier assessment identified the North East and North West as areas of elevated terrorism-financing risk, including vulnerabilities associated with undocumented cash movements and the potential exploitation of humanitarian and service-oriented organisations.
The current exercise is adopting a risk-based approach to identify organisations particularly exposed to abuse and strengthen measures including due diligence and vetting of personnel and vendors working with NPOs in vulnerable areas.
The Theatre Commander, Operation HADIN KAI, Major General Abdulsalam Abubakar, described terrorism financing as a critical enabler of terrorist operations and stressed the need to disrupt the financial lifelines that sustain terrorist organisations.
He also highlighted the security implications of humanitarian cash and supply movements conducted without adequate documentation or coordination. OPHK is therefore seeking earlier notification of planned movements to facilitate security escorts, route protection and, where necessary, air support, alongside stronger screening of local vendors and service providers.
The engagement also builds on a recent Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Roundtable hosted by OPHK with humanitarian actors and United Nations agencies, where issues surrounding humanitarian access, personnel movement and supply delivery were addressed.
The collaboration places financial-risk monitoring alongside military pressure as part of the wider effort to restrict terrorist freedom of action. By identifying vulnerabilities within legitimate humanitarian and non-profit operations without disrupting lawful assistance, the authorities are seeking to protect humanitarian space while preventing its exploitation by terrorist networks.
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