The governor of Cameroon’s Far North Region on Thursday said threats posed by militant Islamist group Boko Haram were “very critical within his jurisdiction.”
Speaking in Mokolo, Gov. Joseph Beti Assomo told reporters that all senior state security officials, divisional heads and religious leaders are on high alert.
Some 600 soldiers including the national gendarmerie in the Far North region have been ordered out of their barracks and strategically deployed in localities close to the border with Nigeria.
Cameroon’s regional governments have intensified rigorous checks after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ordered border closures with some neighboring countries, including Cameroon, due to threats from the Boko Haram. Residents in the Far North capital of Maroua have been reporting to police a growing number of strangers and unusual occurrences.
The Far North Region is largely Muslim more than 2 million people and shares a border with northern Nigeria, where the Boko Haram is based.Trade and custom officials in Maroua say nearly 80% of its regional economy has shrunk since the closure of the borders.
Consumers of Nigerian sugar, flour, cement and other manufactured products are concerned about plummeting supplies, while smuggled Nigerian fuel, locally called “zoua-zoua,” have moved from 80naira to about 1000naira in some parts of the region.
Recently,hundreds of youths have been rounded-up for questioning by the regional police for suspicious activities especially after the Nigerian authorities accussed Cameroon of being part of a Boko Haram base last November.The accusations that the Cameroon government has rejected and consequently intensifying/cracking down on suspects in the three northern muslim regions.
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