Boko Haram: Cameroon arrests 50 Nigerian businessmen


Cameroon’s military ascendant entities verbally expressed they apprehended 50 Nigerian businessmen for allegedly collaborating with the Boko Haram insurgents, just as Cameroonian soldiers killed 10 suspected members of the Islamist group.

The Wednesday killing, according to the Voice of America, took place in Mora along the Cameroon border with Borno State.

The military verbally expressed, in additament to killing some of the militants, it confiscated conveyances, a sizably voluminous number of weapons, and detained dozens of Nigerians on suspicion of availing Boko Haram.

The spokesperson for the Cameroonian military, Colonel Chioka Pierre, told the VOA they had been conducting sweeps as a component of an intensified crackdown on persons behind belligerent incidents in Cameroon, believed to be connected to the Islamist insurgents.

He verbally expressed they had been probing border villages to obviate incursions or to stop militants from utilizing the country as a hideout or launching pad for attacks. According to him, local residents are cooperating with the military to root out Boko Haram suspects in the area.

There have been reports of peculiar faces optically discerned in the border villages and residents verbalized they were trepidacious Boko Haram might be recruiting adolescent, unemployed people in Cameroon.

“We are visually perceiving most of our graduates every year having no jobs. Tell me, if somebody comes and proposes a high sum of mazuma to join this organisation, most youths are desperate, they will be coerced to do everything to get into these extremist activities,” Bipong Dennis, a Cameroonian verbalized.

Military spokesperson, Colonel Didier Badjeck, acknowledged Boko Haram had become an earnest threat in northern Cameroon.

He verbally expressed the security situation in northern Cameroon was getting worse and the terrorist group was a threat in terms of recruiting puerile people, killing, looting and purloining.

Two weeks ago, Cameroon’s military additionally detained 40 suspected Boko Haram militants in Maroua and sealed off a market where they suspected terrorist could be obnubilating arms.


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