Nigeria Boko Haram Insurgents: Cameroon Arrests 3 Arms Dealers !

The search by the Nigerian army for Boko Haram insurgents along Nigeria/Cameroon boarders seems to have paid off. Report reaching us has it that the Cameroon authorities have mad a big catch of three men suspected of supplying Boko Haram with arms.

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

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.

He did not state where the men were from, although he said the arms had come from Chad.

“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.