Insecurity in NW and SW:

Security reports have hinted of imminent attacks by Ambazonia ‘odesh’ fighters

Govt Steps up Security as Secessionists Plan Attack on Ekok & Mungo Bridge

The government has ordered military chiefs to tighten security at the Ekok border town, and in the rest of the NW and SW, as information has filtered that Odeshi fighters are planning to attack Ekok and create their base there.

            A security alert message from the national gendarmerie headquarters to security chiefs in the NW and SW, urged the latter to take urgent measures to protect persons and property in Ekok and the rest of the two regions.

            The message that was circulated on social media talked of a planned attack on Ekok by secessionists, who want to make the border town their military base.

            It announced security reinforcements especially as the secessionists were also said to be targeting banks and the Mungo Bridge.

            Government has also stepped up army patrols along the Cameroon-Nigeria border and imposed a nighttime curfew in the two English-speaking regions to prevent deadly attacks by secessionists.

            “The 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew in the Northwest and Southwest regions is necessary because a secessionist movement that wants the English-speaking minority to break away from the French-speaking regions is planning attacks in the coming days,” according to a government statement read on state radio on Sunday.

            The Defense Ministry has found evidence that the movement has recruited mercenaries from Nigeria, according to the statement.

            Three paramilitary police officers were killed in a gunfight with suspected separatists in the Southwest region on the weekend, Defense Ministry spokesman Didier Badjeck said by phone early Monday. Almost 20 members of Cameroon’s security forces have been killed this year.