Cameroon: Biya honors non state policing groups in the Far North region

President Paul Biya, who is yet to visit Cameroonian troops combating the Nigerian Islamic sect in the Far North region has dispatched Midjiyawa Bakari, the governor of the Far North region with awards to members of vigilante committees that have neutralized Boko Haram kamikaze attacks and by extrapolation reducing the death toll.

Governor Bakari decorated members of these non state policing groups in Bodo (district of Makary in the Logone-et-Chari Division, Kolofata in Mayo-Sava and Nguetchewé district of Mayo-Moskota, Department of Mayo-Tsanaga. 

The members of the vigilante committees were decorated with the Knight's Medal of the Order of Merit of Cameroon. Our intelligence unit gathered that Governor Midjiyawa Bakari also handed huge amounts of money to the wounded including widowers, widows and orphans.