Yaounde: Lake Chad Basin Commission Defense Chiefs revise Boko Haram strategy

Chiefs of defence staff of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and the Republic of Benin have taken part in a special meeting in Yaounde that evaluated the activities of the Multinational Joint Task Force fighting Boko Haram.The high level forum, which is the first ever since the force fully went operation in 2015, was presided over by Cameroon’s Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defence, Joseph Beti Assomo.

The security bosses made frank proposals aimed at efficiently eradicating the Boko Haram terrorist group. Minister Beti Assomo saluted the collaboration and strong cohesion between the different deployments that are fighting the Nigerian Islamic sect phenomenon in three different sectors. Joseph Beti Assomo said decisions taken at the Yaounde meeting will mark a mile stone in the fight against terrorism. 

The conference revealed that Boko Haram has been reduced to uncoordinated attacks, landmines and suicide bombings. The Executive Secretary of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, Sanusi Imran Abdullahi in his keynote address attributed the successes recorded by the Multinational Joint Task Force to high level of engagement and synergy between troops of the different countries involved.

Some of the key issues handled during the security discourse included amendments to some provisions of the organic text of the force and the reorganisation of the sectors of country as well as intelligence sharing.