Bakassi: Cameroon Navy Intercepts Weapon-bearing Boats

Forty-three persons, all male, caught aboard three foreign fishing boats in the Cameroonian waters South of the Bakassi peninsula are currently in custody of the Cameroon Gendarmerie.

The boats were found fishing in Cameroon waters in the Kole oil fields locality in the night of 6 breaking 7 September, 2018. The Cameroon Navy on routine control mission accosted the foreign trespassing boats.

The fact that the boats presented no fishing documents pricked the Navy personnel to intensify their search to the extent of discovering arms on board. Meanwhile, the three vessels are presently docked at the Limbe Shipyard for independent investigations by State Services including the Fisheries and the Customs.

The vigilant Cameroon Navy surprised the foreign boats one after another between the hours of 9pm and 2A.m. in the night of 6 breaking 7 September, 2018, precisely at the oil fields of Kole.

The boats were immediately led to the Limbe Shipyard dock where a preliminary search aboard found automatic weapons including “AK47”and the Naira currency. In the presence of the Doualabased Surface Fleet Commander, Colonel Kenfack Dongmo Emmanuel, and the Limbe Naval based Commander, Lt. Colonel Ngonge Sone, the assorted guns, ammunitions, an...