Anglophone Crisis: What Took General Rene Claude Meka to Bamenda?

Cameroon’s army chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Rene Claude Meka, has recently visited Bamenda, chief town of the Northwest region.

According to an online French newspaper CIN, the army general was in the Northwest region to assess the security apparatus in the region and to request his men to involve the population in strategies to fight against what government has termed “secessionists”.

According to the online publication, the General’s visit to Bamenda Wednesday April 11, 2018, was on the instructions of the head of state.

The senior officer, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces for 17 years, also used the occasion to assess the security situation in the Northwest region that has been rocked by a socio-political crisis for about 17 months today.

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During the working sessions he had with the defense and security forces in Bamenda, General René Claude Meka emphasized the need to involve the population in the fight against what he called “terrorism”, through intelligence and better organization of the security apparatus.

“People are the main beneficiaries of our work. It is therefore perfectly normal for them to be involved in the process. The Chief of Staff urged us to maintain the same mechanism, to maintain the respect of the instructions and to have the perfect and total mastery of this security situation” revealed brigadier general Julius César Esso, commander of the 5th region of gendarmerie via the airwaves of state broadcaster, CRTV.

Ever since the creation of the 5^th joint military region and the 5^th gendarmerie region to cover the Northwest and West regions by the head of state and chief of armed forces, Wednesday’s visit was the first by the army chief of staff to the Northwest region and Bamenda to be precise.

He used this opportunity to get first-hand knowledge of the first results of this reorganization which aims to neutralize the Anglophone activists that have been clamouring for the breakaway of the two English speaking regions of Cameroon from the rest of the country.

LVV