Col. Frédéric Ndjonkep commands 3rd Military Region

MINDEF has recommended that the new Commander organises his unit against the exactions of Boko Haram.

Brigadier General Hyppolite Ebaka, from RMIA3 received the flag of the Republic which he returned to the Minister delegate at the Presidency in charge of defence, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo'o who then delivered the Tricolor flag to Colonel Frédéric Ndjonkep Meyomhy.


A new era begins for this military region which was created as a result of the texts signed on 14 August by the head of State and Army Chief, Paul Biya. The new Commander can now pass his first orders. With a powerful voice that dominated the independence Boulevard of the city of Garoua, Colonel Frédéric Ndjonkep gave his first orders.


"You should know that your celebration will be short-lived and will not have a state of grace," the Minister delegate at the Presidency in charge of defence noted.


To this senior officer who was born November 11, 1960 in Garoua, Mindef recalled the context in which his appointment operates. In the wake of attacks by the Islamist sect Boko Haram in the region of the far North which made the head of State, the head of the armed forces take the decision for the reorganization of the military build-up which led to the break-up of the RMIA3.


"Through this reorganization in the northern part of Cameroon, the president of the Republic intends to give new impetus and guarantee more efficiency to the action of the defence forces in the war that he has himself declared against the sect Islamist Boko Haram."

In the opinion of Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo'o, this has the advantage of bringing military command closer to the theatre of operations, with an intensification of operational means in insecure areas. To olonel Frédéric Ndjonkep, the Mindef will recommend that he lives up to the hopes placed in him by the head of the armed forces.


Especially at a time where Cameroon, resolutely committed to its quest for economic development, tends to become the target of asymmetric character multifaceted threats from outbreaks of tension growing in its immediate vicinity.


It thus has to face the uncontrolled movement of demobilized soldiers, refugees who are flooding the Cameroonian territory, illegal gold mining, poaching with heavy weapons.


When one adds the terrorist activities of the Boko Haram sect, the new Commander took a picture of what awaits him. To cope, he was recommended to invest bluntly so that unity of command is always protected from the abuses of the Islamist sect.