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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