Cameroon Sends 14 Boko Haram Insurgents To Jail

No fewer than 14 members of Boko Haram sect have been sent to prison in Cameroon, the country’s state broadcaster Crtv has reported.

According to the report, a military court in Cameroon has handed down prison sentences of up to 20 years to the insurgents arrested in March this year.

The defendants, who were allegedly caught with weapons cache, admitted to being part of the Nigerian extremist group at a “public hearing” in the northern town of Maroua.

It was gathered that the terrorists were charged with illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and of plotting an insurrection.

“Each of the Boko Haram members (was) sentenced to between 10 and 20 years” in prison, said the report, adding that the sentences cannot be appealed.

The trial was reportedly the first of its kind in Cameroon where a large number of members of the radical group have been arrested in the north over the past weeks following attacks on police stations, as well as kidnappings and killings.

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“We are worried about infiltrations” by the Islamists among the refugees, a police officer in the town said.