The Cameroon army has announced that it has killed 21 fighters of the Nigerian Islamist sect. Our military informant revealed that armed Boko Haram militants staged a surprised attack on the Motorized Infantry Battalion located in Tolkomari in Mayo-Sava Division in the Far North region.
The Cameroon army reportedly responded vigorously to the attack. Eye witnesses say after several hours of fighting, the attackers retreated to the town of Sanda Wadjiri in Nigeria aboard motorcycles.
Boko Haram developed from the culture of impunity and unchecked state supervised criminality against civilians during military rule under the Northern Military establishment in Nigeria.
This is the culture of impunity that gave birth to claims for Sharia States in some Northern states and coordinated attacks against Christians in Northern Nigeria.
The sharia claims emerged only when Olusegun Obasanjo a Christian from the West was elected as the first democratic President of Nigeria after Military rule.
The political motivation for this move using religion a lethal weapon was not lost on keen observers of Nigerian politics nor to the Southern Military establishment and politicians or even Obasanjo. The hidden hand of his military peers from the North behind these acts of destabilization was obvious.
This did not happen during the military rule dominated by the Northern Military establishment so also the so-called Fulani herdsmen slaughter of Christians and burning of Christian Churches in the North and the Middle Belt.
