Adamawa, East Regions: Government Steps Up Security Measures

Defence Minister, Joseph Beti Assomo presented the measures during a question time plenary sitting in the Senate on July 5, 2017.

The Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defence, Joseph Beti Assomo has disclosed the security measures government has taken to curb the upsurge of attacks by armed groups that cross from Nigeria and the Central African Republic into the East and Adamawa Regions, as well as the phenomenon of highway robbery that is resurfacing. This was during a question time plenary sitting of the Senate chaired by Senate President Marcel Niat Njifenji on July 5, 2017.
He answered a question from Senator Mohaman Gabdo Yaya who expressed worries about the upsurge of attacks, especially in Mayo-Banyo Division of the Adamawa Region perpetrated by armed men that cross from Taraba State in Nigeria, fleeing the ethnic conflicts in the area. The Defence Minister used the occasion to state what government was doing to tackle the rising insecurity and eradicate crimes and banditry in the Adamawa, East and North Regions. He said at the external level, Cameroon has sent forces that are fighting to restore security in the Central African Republic within the framework of the United Nations Multinational Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). He said by trying to secure the Central African Republic, the forces were also securing Cameroon. He also disclosed that talks were on going for forces from Cameroon within MINUSCA to be deployed along the borders of the two countries s...