Forty-five suspected allies of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram have been transferred to Yaoundé, after being arrested yesterday in the city of Maroua, in the Far North.

According to APA, security services have said those arrested are barbers and small traders operating in the bordering town of Nigeria, who were caught by the police during a closure of the local market and neighbourhoods.

According to reliable sources, the alleged had been tracked for days by the intelligence services, after conversations being spoken in Nigerian languages, Hausa and Fulani, where overheard discussing the preparation of terrorist acts with the support of young motor-taxi drivers in Maroua recruited by Boko Haram.

The great fear of the security forces and also the authorities, is now the extent of local complicity and massive infiltration of Nigerian citizens after obtaining Cameroonian nationality through the free National identity Card which was decided on the eve of the presidential election campaign in October 2013.

In recent days, the Cameroonian army sent large numbers into northern border areas with Nigeria, who seized two senior Boko Haram officials who are currently being interrogated in Yaoundé.