The officials of the security forces said the arms, hidden under the courtyard of the house in the eastern neighbourhood of Guinebor, were intended for northern Nigeria.

One of the witnesses, who wants to stay anonymous, said that the captured arms were part of a huge collection that Baana Fanaye, Boko Haram member responsible for the provision for northern Cameroon and Chad, was preparing to displace to Nigeria.

The investigator said the disclosure came during an inquiry after Fanaye was detained in a raid by Chadian police in June.

Alghassim Khamis, the state prosecutor said the latest weapons cache, exposed on Thursday, was found buried in one of the houses raided on June 27.

He said Chadian officials arrested 60 suspected insurgents and demolished their suicide attacks cells. He added that two days later, five officers and six militants were killed during a raid on an weapons cache.

It would be recalled that one of the leaders of the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram Bahna Fanaye, whose name is Mahamat Moustapha, was detained on Sunday, along with two others. He said Fanaye coordinated the trafficking of weapons between Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad for the radical Islamic attacks.

Khamis said forces seized various weapons, communication materials, documents and more than 50 SIM cards from Fanaye’s home. He said a man described as the financier of the group was also arrested in another operation.

Chad has been a major military ally with Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram, which has publicly threatened the Chadian president with retaliation.

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