Ambazonia Fighters are Worse than Boko Haram-Atanga Nji Paul

Cameroon’s Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji, has said that some youths from the North West and South West regions killing security forces in ongoing Anglophone crisis are “Terrorists, flesh eaters which makes them worse than Boko Haram,” he said.

Paul Atanga Nji unleashed the salvo against Ambazonia fighters on Monday June 25, 2018 while being interviewed by CRTV’s Aime Robert Bihina, on one of CRTV’s flagship program, Presidence Actu aired on state television.

According to the intrepid Paul Atanga Nji, he had seen images on social media in which Ambazonia fighters butchered a human being, cooked and were eating, concluding that their acts were worse than what Boko Harm is doing in the Far North region.

Because of this, he said the fighters will be more than wanted by the regime and that the government was going to crush them soon, he assured.

During the program which is the French language equivalence of “Inside the Presidency”, Atanga Nji said that everywhere he goes, people ask him the whereabouts of some 12 Ambazonia leaders captured in Nigeria in January and extradited to Cameroon. “I don’t know why people are only talking about those extradited, I meet Diplomats and they all ask me on their whereabouts but I want to tell them that Cameroon is state of law….they have raped, tortured people, thousands of people stormed the area asking for their heads. We are holding them for their own security. The investigation is ongoing and when time comes they will go to court. ”

He went further to state that the sought after Anglophone activists were doing well and that they have even gained weight.

“Those arrested in Nigeria and extradited to Cameroon are doing well, in fact when they came here I saw one about 70 kg but now he has about 100 kg,” he said.

Paul Atanga Nji’s statements come barely a week after government announced a plan for emergency humanitarian assistance to the affected populations of the two English speaking regions of Cameroon.

His outing on CRTV also coincides with some newspaper analysis that were already asking questions about why the territorial ministry boss had gone so quiet after so much vibrancy he exuded weeks after his appointment into the current portfolio.

Recall that funds are already being mobilized to realise the emergency humanitarian assistance plan and he (Atanga Nji) heads a commission that is to be in charge of the plan.