The wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister,
Amadou Ali, was abducted today 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 spoke
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