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Camerounian security
forces have seized a large cache of arms and ammunition from the suspected Boko
Haram insurgents.
The Director of Defence
Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, said in an electronic mail on Tuesday
that the items seized by the Camerounian security forces included 288 rifles,
35 rocket propelled grenades and several other Improvised Explosive Devices.
Olukolade said that the
items were recovered from the insurgents after a fierce encounter between the
Camerounians and the insurgents at Abugasse near the border with Chad.
The Defence Spokesman
said that the security men also arrested two major arms suppliers to the
insurgents in Nigeria who were in possession of over 50 Camerounian passports
and a Toyota jeep.
Olukolade also said that
other weapons such as pistols, mortar bombs, sub-machine guns and various
calibers of arms and ammunition were recovered from the arrested suspected gun
runners.
Olukolade, who
described the seizure as a product of collaborative cross border efforts against
terrorism recalled that Cameroun gave a recent pledge to back Nigeria’s counter
terrorism campaign.
He stated also that the
Nigerian Special Forces also arrested a terrorist driving a green Peugeot car
with registration number Bauchi 264 AAA, which was heading from Alagarno to
Maiduguri and recovered 15 ‘AK47 rifles and 12 magazines and various yet to be assembled rifles’ from him.
According to him the
Special Forces had also arrested several terrorists with arms recovered from
them at the nation’s border with Cameroun, in addition to those captured in the
ongoing offensive.
Olukolade said that
intense military operation was going on at the Alagarno area and various points
of the Sambisa Forest.
He said that Special
Forces had destroyed 14 operational vehicles and recovered various calibers of
arms and ammunition from the insurgents in the operation which started on
Monday.
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