Counter Insurgency: Cameroun set to receive Pres. Buhari

You need to see the streets of Yaounde. Effigies of @mbuhari and @PR_Paul_Biya all over, with messages of solidarity. pic.twitter.com/PYolQmK92G

— Kathleen Ndongmo (@KathleenNdongmo) July 28, 2015

To build a more effective regional coalition against the Boko Haram sect, President Muhammadu Buhari will visit Cameroon on Wednesday for talks with President Paul Biya and senior Cameroonian Government officials.

The talks between Buhari and his Cameroonian counterpart, according to a statement issued by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, are expected to focus on the full activation and deployment of the Multinational Joint Task Force against Boko Haram, which has been established under the auspices of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.


President Buhari, who will be accompanied on the two-day trip by six state governors and the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defence  and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, the statement said, will also discuss further joint measures to curb terrorism, violent extremism and other cross-border crimes.

The state governors on the President’s entourage are – Alhaji Mohammed Bindow (Adamawa), Mr. Emmanuel Udom (Akwa Ibom), Mr. Samuel Ortom (Benue), Alhaji Kashim Shettima (Borno), Mr. Ben Ayade (Cross River) and Mr. Darius Ishaku (Taraba).

President Buhari will also use the opportunity of his visit to Cameroon to meet with Nigerians living in the East African nation.

The President, who is due back in Abuja on Thursday, will also undertake a one-day trip to Benin Republic on Saturday for talks with President Boni Yayi to round-off the diplomatic shuttles to neighbouring countries.