people eeben barlow chairman lourens horn harry carlse services providing military combat forces including personnel and equipment law enforcement and training logistics and security services website http www.sttepi.com specialised tasks training equipment and protection international sttep is a private military company founded in 2006 . sttep was hired by the nigerian government in 2015 to provide military training for the offensive against boko haram . 1 its chairman eeben barlow was the founder of the south african pmc executive outcomes 2 which ceased operations in 1998 . though the company remains secretive about its contracts it claims to have operated throughout africa the far east the middle east and central america . references edit freeman colin 10 may 2015 . south african mercenaries secret war on boko haram . the telegraph . retrieved 17 may 2015 . run by colonel eeben barlow a former commander in the south african defence force the group of bush warfare experts were recruited in top secrecy in january to train an elite strike group within nigeria s disorganised demoralised army . murphy jack 1 april 2015 . eeben barlow speaks out pt . 1 pmc and nigerian strike force devastates boko haram . sofrep . retrieved 17 may 2015 . barlow is well known for founding executive outcomes ... this corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sttep & oldid 714921719 categories private military contractorsmercenariesparamilitary organizationscompany stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 april 2016 at 16 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view