CAMEROON SACKS TWO ARMY OFFICERS OVER BOKO HARAM RAIDS.

President Paul Biya of Cameroon yesterday dismissed two senior army officers over Boko Haram attacks in the country’s far north, in which at least seven people were killed and the wife of vice premier was kidnapped.

Boko Haram sect members were said to have seized the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister and killed at least three people on Sunday, in an attack in Kolofata town, involving more than 200 assailants. At least four soldiers were killed in two separate raids late last week.

According to the announcement over state radio, Colonel Youssa Gedeon, commander of the Gendarmerie Legion in the north, and Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Ngonga, commander of the 34th motorized 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 border with Nigeria, deploying more than 1,000 soldiers, but that has failed to stop the raids.

CAMEROON SACKS TWO ARMY OFFICERS OVER BOKO HARAM RAIDS.