Boko Haram Militants Kidnap Wife Of Cameroon Vice Prime Minister

Boko Haram Militants Kidnap Wife Of Cameroon Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali: Report -- IBTimes

Nigerian militants of the Islamist Boko Haram group attacked Kolofata, a town inside neighboring Cameroon Sunday, reportedly seizing the wife of Cameroonian Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali.

"The situation is very critical here now,” Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, a commander of Cameroon’s army, told Reuters. "Some of them [Boko Haram militants] have already taken away the wife of Vice Prime Minister Ahmadou Ali and her house help while the bodyguards of the vice prime minister have succeeded in taking him out of the town to Mora."

Boko Haram has carried out two attacks inside Cameroon since Friday. The Nigerian government says it believes Boko Haram wants to gain a foothold in Cameroon, which is west of Nigeria. Cameroonian President Paul Biya has deployed about 1,000 soldiers to the area.

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My Comment: The message that Boko Haram is sending out is very clear .... no one is safe from these fanatics in that part of Africa.