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The Cameroonian Military on Wednesday says, the threat from Boko Haram Terrorist Group is growing in Cameroon, hence the need to set up a bigger and stronger military bases for combat the insurgents.
According to the elite Rapid Intervention Battalion of the Cameroon army, best known by the French acronym BIR, the military has built five new bases to fight kidnapping and terrorism in the Adamawa region.
The new military bases installed in Kontcha sub division of Faro-et-Deo division, Bankim a Sonkolong and Mayo Darle in Mayo Banyo division, Martap in Vina division and Dir in Mbere division.
SpyeTV News learnt that, in the past three year, there have been Rapid increase of kidnapping for ransom and cattle rustling by the Boko Haram Terrorists in the Northern part of Cameroon.
Speaking to Newsmen, the assistant controller general of BIR and battalion commander, Guy Herve Onambele Mendouga, said the creation of the five bases is in line with a new strategy of the Cameroonian army high command to combat the increasing acts of insecurity in the divisions concerned.
“The high command has demanded that a close proximity security network be put in place, with fortified bases manned by one hundred personnel equipped with the latest generation of armaments, autonomous in electrical energy and water, with very strong mobility. These proximity operational units, which at the same time have the force and mobility have an ultimate objective: a peaceful environment for the population”, Onambele Mendouga revealed.
Official figures indicate that for the past three years, there has been a marked increase in acts of hostage-taking and theft of cattle in the areas where the new bases have been established.
The BIR official also explained that in the past, micro-detachments made up of two to six elements carried out patrols but the high command quickly realised that the threat had widened and the Cameroon army could no longer efficiently respond to the threat.
“That is the reason why definitive and permanent posts have been put in place for stronger responses to the threat. That is the reasoning behind the putting in place of these autonomous and tactical bases with one hundred soldiers equipped with mobile material and latest technology armaments”, the BIR official said.