Cameroon: Military Averts Bomb Detonation On Bamenda Congress Hall

Elements of the Rapid Intervention Battalion known by its French Acronyms as BIR, over the weekend (September 16) averted a bomb from detonating in the Northwest Regional capital, Bamenda.

The said bomb, which was intended to ruin the Bamenda Congress Hall, was averted by the BIR before it could detonate.

According to corresponding reports, those behind the bomb were targeting the Bamenda Congress Hall, which has been serving as a habit and a safe haven for Biya security forces that were drafted into Bamenda from the Northern Regions of Cameroon and from Koutaba in the West Regions to clamp down on the Anglophone agitators.

The incident on Saturday came barely a few days after another deafening explosion around the Bamenda Hospital Roundabout, sent government security agents who were on a mission in the vicinity running for their lives.

Even though it was later claimed by the security forces that the explosion at the Hospital Roundabout was triggered by the explosion of a gas cylinder and not a bomb, the Ambazonia Defense Forces (ADF), which has reportedly drafted in her own troops into the Anglophone Regions to protect her citizens from Biya’s security operatives, has however issued a statement.

In the statement the ADF stated that; “The Special Intelligence Unit of the Ambazonia Defense Forces (ADF) intercepted a communication between forces of La Republique du Cameroun. This communication revealed a mission by the forces of Cameroun to arrest two family members of one high value Ambazonian currently under abduction and detention in the dungeons of Yaoundé.”

According to the intelligent unit, it is based on this that they have carried out such moves to preempt  such arrest.