this morning 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
said.
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