Security in the South West : Army Chief Of Staff Leads Control Mission

The Nation’s Army Chief of Staff, General Rene Claude Meka, has led an operational control mission to the South West Regional capital, Buea, yesterday, 1 December, 2021. The expedition, which is a second phase to oversee the defence and security operations on the ground follows last June’s.
The Army Chief of Staff, Rene Claude Meka, paid a courtesy call on the South West Governor, Bernard Okalia Bilai, in his office yesterday morning before moving down to the 21st Mobile Infantry Battalion premises where briefings and presentations were made by local Gendarmerie, Army and Police authorities.
The Army Chief of Staff had in his sleeves a heightened mission to evaluate the security, defence and health situation of the Second Military Region. The mission was more sensitive this time with regards to the end-of-year-feast approaching this December, and the continental football feast billed from 9 January to 6 February, 2022, in Cameroon with Limbe/Buea site in the South West Region hosting Pool F of the African Nations’ Football Cup. The event that will attract international visitors from more than 24 Nations requires a relentless security alert to avert any negative intentions to perturb. Equally, the military mission aimed to reassure the population of the zeal of the Forces to protect people and their properties following the incident of Ekondo Titi where Secondary school students were slain i...