Cameroon’s military has apprehended 40 suspected Boko Haram militants in the north of the country. Soldiers have withal sealed off a market where they suspect Boko Haram may be obnubilating arms for use in the insurgency over the border in Nigeria.
Col. Nyemeck Pierre, who led the military raid, told VOA that the central regime authoritatively mandated the military action as a component of its fight against Boko Haram incursions into Cameroon.
“It is the obligation of the military to filter the population so that enemies do not infiltrate into Cameroon,” he verbalized in French Language.
He integrated that the matter was perplexed because along the border there were Nigerians and Cameroonians “who belong to the same families and soldiers have to endeavor to distinguish who is a militant.
Withal, a state radio broadcaster in Cameroon additionally promulgated that, “A gendarme [military] raid on the Maroua Central Market has led to the apprehends of over 40 people.
“The apprehends are in connection with the perpetual investigations into the activities of the Boko Haram group in the far north region of the country.”
In an interview with the private Danay FM radio station, Maroua businessman Wanika Baba, verbalized many of the apprehended were his peers and there was mystification in the community.
He integrated that he did not understand what was transpiring as the military has had the market sealed off for two days now and have apprehended so many people.
Baba verbalized children and women were suffering from the closure and “no one kens the fate of those apprehended.”
This is the first time Cameroon’s military has carried out an operation on such an astronomically immense scale in a single day.
Northern Cameroon has been plagued for virtually a year with an influx of refugees and militants from strife in neighbouring Central African Republic and the Boko Haram violence in northern Nigeria.
Authorities in Cameroon have been urging citizens along the border – particularly with Nigeria’s Borno State – the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency – to cooperate with the regime by providing information on suspected sympathisers with the Islamist sect.
The Cameroonian regime believes Boko Haram is now expanding its recruitment into Cameroon.
