The military leadership in Nigeria and their counterparts from Cameroun have commenced a two-day conference, which focuses on the coordination of Nigeria-Cameroun Trans border military operations in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh,, said during the conference, organised with the theme ‘Co-ordinating Conference on Nigeria – Cameroon Trans Boarder Military Operations’, that the conference was designed to further engage stakeholders in the campaign against terrorism and other crimes in the two countries and the countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.
Cameroon’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Maka Rene Claude, led his country’s military delegation to the conference.
Badeh said, “This conference was conceived and organised as part of the on-going efforts at engaging relevant stakeholders in our collective determination to address the challenges of terrorism and other acts of criminality which our two countries in particular and the Lake Chad Basin Commission countries in general are currently being confronted with.”
The CDS recalled the series of meetings held in Paris, Yaoundé and Niamey, meant to forge a common approach to tackle the Boko Haram’s threat in the North-East of Nigeria, Northern Cameroon and the Lake Chad Basin.
He said it was agreed in a meeting of the Ministers of Defence, Chiefs of Defence Staff and Heads of Intelligence Services of LCBC Member States and Benin Republic in Niamey, Niger Republic, that the member nations should, at the bilateral level, conduct co-ordinated patrols along our common borders in order to crack down on Boko Haram, locate and save all abducted persons among others.
