Cameroon secret service arrest 5 Boko Haram fighters in Garoua

Five members of the Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram were arrested on Tuesday, January 20 in Garoua, in the North region of Cameroon. The secret service of the Rapid Intervention Battalion that has even since been policing the North region seized five members of the Boko Haram sect in Garoua, the capital of the North region.

Cameroon Concord gathered that the five had entered Garoua using a vehicle driven by a Chadian national in the district of Demsa. They reportedly spent some time in Bolky-a small locality not far from Garoua.  Cameroon military sources say they moved to Garoua pretending to be businessmen but were however identified by plain cloth policemen as members of Boko Haram who participated in the attacks on Kolofata.

The five Boko Haram members were arrested and Cameroon Concord got intelligence at the time of writing this report that the 5 have helped the Demsa gendarmerie with information that has led to the arrest of  Awalo Mohamed Moussa, Hassanou, Dogo and Balla Garga who were secretly hiding at Bamanga village. The five have confessed to the Cameroon Gendarmerie their active involvement in the attacks on Kolofata in the Far North and Mubi in Nigeria. This recent action has raised the tally to 17 Boko Haram fighters currently in Cameroon military drag net in the North region.