Cameroon police officer arrested for issuing 2,500 National Identity Cards to Boko Haram fighters

Cameroon Special Forces have arrested a police officer in Maroua who has been supporting Boko Haram fighters infiltrating from Nigeria. Cameroon Concord’s chief correspondent in Maroua observed that police chief Inspector Abdoulaye Farikou was arrested following an order from the State Counsel of the Maroua Appeal Court in the Far North region.

Abdoulaye Farikou reportedly delivered Cameroon national identity cards to Boko Haram fighters that enabled some 2,500 fighters from Nigeria to impersonate, spy and massacre hundreds in Fotokol and Mabass. Our military informant who contributed to this report noted earlier today that investigations on Inspector Abdoulaye Farikou started when some Boko Haram militants caught in action carried Cameroon IDs but could not articulate a single word in French or in Cameroonian pidgin English.

At the time of writing this report, information filtered to our news desk that Chief Inspector Abdoulaye Farikou has been transferred to Yaoundé, where he will be tried by the military court. He will be judged using the Anti Terrorism Act recently passed by parliament, which prescribes the death penalty on anyone helping the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram.