By Bode Olagoke
Abuja
A bilateral defence meeting between Nigeria and Cameroun is scheduled to hold today at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, in furtherance of international contacts by Nigeria in the effort to stamp out terrorism in the sub-region.
Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, who disclosed this said the three-day meeting would be hosted by the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, and would have in attendance his Cameroonian counterpart who would lead his country’s military delegation.
He said the forum, which is a follow-up to previous international and regional meetings to foster a common ground in the fight against insurgency and terrorism, would fashion out ways of strengthening the existing working relationship and cooperation between the two Armed Forces in the war against terror in the West African sub-region.
Olukolade said the bilateral talk would be expected to advance the collaboration to contain the activities of terrorists in the two countries through coordinated military operations along the borders.
He said: “The meeting between the two countries is coming at the heels of a similar parley of foreign ministers of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroun, Niger and Benin Republic held earlier in the week on appropriate legal framework for cross border military operations against the Boko Haram terrorists in the region.”
