Cameroon arrests three for trafficking arms to Boko Haram

Cameroon arrests three for trafficking arms to Boko Haram

Posted by Sylvester on Friday, March 28, 2014 0

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YAOUNDÉ (AFP) – Cameroon said on Thursday it had arrested three
suspected arms dealers believed to be linked to Nigeria’s militant
Islamist group Boko Haram.

Also some other suspected terrorists were also arrested while
attempting to escape into Cameroon through Taraba and Gumti,
Adamawa State by the Nigerian Joint Military Task Force.
The men were caught in the far north of the country on Wednesday,
near the border with Nigeria where the group has been waging a brutal
armed insurgency.

“Members of the BIR (an elite rapid-response unit of Cameroon’s army)
and the police found a significant stock of arms including a kalashnikov
and rocket launchers near Goulfey,” a Cameroonian police official told
AFP, on condition of anonymity.
Suspected terrorists arrested while attempting to escape into Cameroon
through Taraba and Gumti, Adamawa State.
He did not state where the men were from, although he said the arms
had come from Chad.

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“Three suspects were taken in for questioning, suspected of being
among the arms traffickers that supply Boko Haram,” he said. “The
stock of weapons was sizeable, and we think the plan was to bring
them through Cameroon before taking them to Nigeria.”

Both the weapons and the men were taken to Maroua, the regional
capital, a source close to the town’s administration said.
Boko Haram is fighting a bloody insurgency in the majority-Muslim
north of Nigeria, with the National Emergency Management Agency
saying this week that more than 1,000 people have been killed in the
violence so far this year.
Some of the group’s fighters are thought to have fled to neighbouring
Cameroon since the Nigerian army launched an offensive in May last
year.
Nigeria recently appealed to its neighbours for help in trying to
eradicate the group.
Already this month, six suspected fighters and one Cameroonian soldier
have been killed in clashes after Boko Haram infiltrated into
neighbouring Cameroon.

More so the Nigerian Joint Military Task Force arrested suspected
terrorists while attempting to escape into Cameroon through Taraba
and Gumti, Adamawa State .

The suspects were said to have come out of hiding in the forest due to
hunger in their make shift camps.
Those that were apprehended led the Nigerin troops to other hideouts.

Seven terrorists died, while a large number of Improvised Explosive
Devices, IEDs, and rifles were recovered including over 70 motorcycles.
Similar encounter in Gombi also led to the death of four other terrorists.
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