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.
Posted: at 30-07-2014 05:14 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Wow. That makes a change. Military officers in an African country dismissed from service Gosh. In some African states they would have been PROMOTED with full military honours and given a pay rise!
Posted: at 30-07-2014 05:40 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Wow. That makes a change. Military officers in an African country dismissed from service Gosh. In some African states they would have been PROMOTED with full military honours and given a pay rise!
And dat state is Nigeria
Posted: at 30-07-2014 06:25 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Wow. That makes a change. Military officers in an African country dismissed from service Gosh. In some African states they would have been PROMOTED with full military honours and given a pay rise!
That's Naija 4 u
Am too defended to be a victim
Posted: at 30-07-2014 09:34 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
And all these while boko haram has been killing and maiming people in nigeria with the help of their boko haram soldier... Have our government use anyone of them as an example? The answer is NO. My heart bleed for nigeria. What a country.
Posted: at 30-07-2014 11:49 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
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