The wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister,
Amadou Ali, was kidnapped this morning July
27th after men of the Boko Haram sect stormed
her home in the northern town of Kolofata,
Cameroon’s information minister and government
spokesman revealed.
Mrs Ali was kidnapped alongside her domestic
staff and one other person. The insurgents also
killed 3 people in the attack on Kolofata, a town
in Cameroon’s Far North Region near Nigeria
Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the second
commander of Cameroon’s third inter-army
military region (RMIA3) based in the regional
headquarters of Maroua, said the sect members
are believed to still be in the town fiercely
engaging military officers
“The situation is very critical here now, and as I
am talking to you the Boko Haram elements are
still in Kolofata town in a clash with our soldiers.
Some of them 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,” Formekong said, adding that there
could be more casualties” he said