More than three million
euros and hundreds of tonnes of food, local media said Wednesday, have been
raised to help Cameroon’s army battle Nigeria’s feared Boko Haram fighter.
“2.1 billion CFA francs (3.2 million euros) already” collected to help troops fighting the Islamist group on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria, said the national CRTV radio and TV network.
“2.1 billion CFA francs (3.2 million euros) already” collected to help troops fighting the Islamist group on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria, said the national CRTV radio and TV network.
But with corruption rife
across Cameroon, the government has set up an inter-ministerial committee to
ensure “transparent” management of the funds offered up by citizens of the
struggling African nation, the broadcaster said. Hundreds of tonnes of food aid
have also been donated to help the army since the fundraising began several
weeks back, it added.
Addressing fears the funds
could go missing, the government said a special account has been opened for the
cash. But local media said President Paul Biya recently fired two army officers
for embezzling food aid for the troops. Cameroonians still remember how the
country’s famed football team, “The Indomitable Lions”, never saw a cent of the
funds collected nationwide in 1994 for their World Cup bid. “The suitcase of
money is somewhere between Paris (its last trace) and New York,” Cameroonians
still say today.
Cameroon decided last
August to fight Boko Haram after a series of incursions by the Islamist
fighters in the far north of the country. Two soldiers were killed in a Boko
Haram attack there earlier this month. Nigeria’s military has claimed a series
of victories over the group across the northeast since an offensive launched in
February with support from Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Chop and clean mouth money don come. I no trust Africans.
ReplyDeleteThe money should be enough to buy those sophisticated weapon to fight Boko Haram if is not stolen
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