Wednesday 1 October 2014

BOKO HARAM: CAMEROUN ARRESTS MAYOR, 300 INSURGENTS






Cameroun Army yesterday announced the arrest of the Mayor of Fotokol, Ramat Moussa and 300 Boko Haram insurgents. The army said that huge stocks of weapons being used by insurgents in their attacks were found in the mayor’s residence, including those made by China.
Agency report quoted a source in Maroua as saying that some of the heavy weapons found at the residence of Mayor Moussa included machine guns and rockets.
Before his arrest, Moussa was a notable member of the ruling Cameroun Peoples Democratic Movement with access to the country’s military intelligence information.
The source said that Cameroun secret service had released from detention one Hans De Marie Heungoup, a reporter with the International Crisis Group who was arrested following wrong intelligence from Mayor Moussa that he was a Boko Haram agent

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