Yang receives Equatorial Guinean, Nigerian envoys

The two Foreign Affairs Ministers were bearers of sealed messages from their leaders to President Paul Biya.

Prime Minister, Head of government, Philemon Yang, yesterday received on behalf of the Head of State, Paul Biya, sealed messages from Ministers of Foreign Affairs of two friendly and neighbouring countries; Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.

The first envoy at the Star Building yesterday was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Equatorial Guinea, Agapito Mb aMokuy, who came along with a sealed message from the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to his Cameroonian counterpart, Paul Biya.

Speaking to reporters after the brief audience with the Prime Minister, the envoy, who was accompanied by the Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to Cameroon, did not disclose the content of the message, which he said President Obiang Nguema sent to his brother and friend, President Paul Biya.

The Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister and PM Yang also reviewed friendly and bilateral cooperation between both States.

He used the opportunity to talk about the upcoming April 24, 2016 presidential elections in this central African country.

Minister Agapito Mba declared that calm and serenity reign as mature political debates and campaigns are ongoing in Equatorial Guinea.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Bukar Ibrahim, came later in the day with another sealed message this time from President Buhari.

Accompanied at the Star Building by the Nigerian High Commissioner to Cameroon, Hadiza Moustapha, the Honourable Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, told reporters that her discussions with the Prime Minister centered on what Cameroon and Nigeria have in common given historical links between the two countries which dates back since before independence.

“At the moment, we have the same Multinational Joint Task Force fighting the Boko Haram insurgency. So we discussed a lot at length, including the investments Nigerians are making in Cameroon”, she said.