That’s one of those jobs that I would smile and refuse to accept while patting myself on the back for showing wisdom beyond my years. Nope, $6M a year is too tempting. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere close to it.
And they’ve been killing a lot of officials too, so he may very well have had the choice to take the money and help them or die. It would be even harder to pass up $450,000 a month under those circumstances.