lol- Cameroon Sacks 2 Army Chiefs After Boko Haram Raids

Cameroon’s President Paul

Biya on Tuesday dismissed two

senior army officers in the

country’s far north following

Boko Haram attacks in which

at least seven people were

killed and the wife of vice

prime minister, Amadou Ali

was kidnapped.



Militants of the Nigerian

Islamist group seized the wife

of Amadou Ali and killed at

least three persons on Sunday

in an attack in the northern

town of Kolofata involving

more than 200 assailants. At

least four soldiers were killed

in two separate raids late last

week.



According to the decree,

announced over state radio,

Colonel Youssa Gedeon,

commander of the

Gendarmerie Legion in the

north, and Lieutenant-Colonel

Justin Ngonga, commander of

the 34th motorised infantry

battalion in the same region,

were both dismissed.



Both officers were at the

forefront of Cameroon’s

response to the rising number

of Boko Haram attacks in the

region. Nigeria says the

militants are using Cameroon

as a rear base.



Cameroon has already

introduced measures to

increase security on its long,

jungle border with Nigeria,

deploying more than 1,000

soldiers, but has failed to stop

the raids.





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