Cameroon has deported more than 2,000 Nigerians
who were living in the country illegally as part of new
security measures intended to prevent suicide
attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, sources said Friday.
Regional newspaper L’Oeil du Sahel reported that
about 2,500 Nigerians had been “rounded up” in
Kousseri, in the far north of Cameroon, and sent back
to their country on Thursday.
The weekly posted a photo on its Facebook page
showing several departing trucks crammed with
hundreds of passengers.
A source close to regional authorities confirmed that
“more than 2,000 ‘irregular’ Nigerians have been
expelled from Kousseri”.
Mey Aly, an official from a local NGO, said that most
of the Nigerians “had fled the atrocities of Boko
Haram” to take refuge in Cameroon.
Thursday’s deportations came just a day after
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited
Cameroon for talks on how to combat the escalating
regional threat from Boko Haram.
Buhari and Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya
pledged to strengthen cooperation between their two
countries in the fight against the insurgents.
Between July 12 and July 25, Cameroon’s far north,
on the border with Boko Haram’s Nigerian
strongholds, suffered three suicide attacks — two in
the regional capital, Maroua — leaving at least 44
people dead.
The Cameroonian border post at Kousseri — which
has been hit by two suicide attacks since June —
occupies a strategic position, with just a bridge
separating it from Chad’s capital N’Djamena.
Authorities in Cameroon’s far north have taken
significant steps to boost security, including banning
women from wearing the full face-veil amid fears
that suicide bombers could use the garment to
conceal explosives.
“With these attacks, the tone of the authorities has
changed,” said a security source in Maroua. “They
have asked that foreigners (notably Nigerians) and
displaced people in the border areas go home.”
Some 300 Cameroonian children were removed
from their Koranic schools in Maroua and taken back
to their villages on Friday, according to a source close
to local authorities, as the schools’ managers feared
that insurgents could try to use them for suicide
attacks.
Boko Haram’s bloody insurgency in Nigeria has left
more than 15,000 people dead since 2009 and has
increasingly spread across the country’s borders, with
Chad and Cameroon suffering deadly suicide
bombings in recent months.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/cameroon-deports-2000-nigerians-in-fight-against-boko-haram-sources/

While proactive governments are taking drastic measures, ours are touring the globe taking pictures and looking for shortcut to negotiate. Chai.

Nigeria, chad, benin and cameroon must join hand together and fight this epidermic called boko haram.

If someone didn't travel to camuu, atleast the respect for still dae..
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Even camuu dae pursue naija from her country... But nigerians no fit try to stop all these illegal immigration stuff?

Even if u want misplace na camuu u go chose to misplace to??...

Our Forefathers weytin sup?

Haha cameroun of all place,kai naija I hail una hustle

Safe to say Baba committed a diplomatic blunder.

Next: Benin republic deports 3000 Nigerians.

Cc: Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Amaechi, Chinedu, Rochas abeg this post is worthy of FP