No fewer than 22 Nigerians who were deported from Cameroon were found to be Boko Haram members.

The discovery was made by Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) after the suspected Boko Haram members were put at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Mubi, Adamawa.

Muhammad Sani Sidi, Director-General of NEMA, disclosed this at a meeting on Thursday in Abuja.

Sidi stated that the Boko Haram members were identified with a peculiar mark on their backs amongst the 12,000 Nigerians deported from Cameroon put in IDPs camp in Mubi.

He added that 90 per cent of the deported persons were from Borno.

“The Cameroonian government dumped 12,000 Nigerians at Mubi and we had to move them to transit camps and even open more camps to accommodate them.

“Ninety per cent of these returnees are from Borno with a lot of Boko Haram elements among them. We arrested 22 of them yesterday who were actually planning an attack, they were identified with a mark inscribed on their backs with hot iron in form of tattoos.

“The mark on their backs indicates that they are ready to die,” Sidi said.

He added that there were 23 residential camps in Borno and that the state government planned to open more as the number of displaced persons was increasing.