Armed men Suspected to be Boko Haram members have abducted a police commissioner in Cameroon.
According to L'Oeil du Sahel, a newspaper in Cameroun, Usmaila Sogu who is the police commissioner in Dabanga city was abducted on Sunday January 3rd. His official vehicle has been found burnt between Gassama and Kabo villages in Cameroon.
Sago has been declared missing since Monday morning was allegedly kidnapped on Sunday.
He was seen for the last time with his vehicle on the section kabo-DABANGA OF THE NATIONAL NO 1 Maroua-Ylang Ylang, infested by Boko Haram according to reports.
The vehicle of the commissioner was later found yesterday morning, burned, between gassama and kabo.
Boko Haram has been described as one of the world’s deadliest terror groups.
The group has broadened its threat to neighbouring countries around the Lake Chad region such as Cameroun, Chad and Niger.
According to the Global Terrorism Index, a report released by the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace, it “has become the most deadly terrorist group in the world”.
The group’s six-year insurgency in North-eastern Nigeria has led to the death of some 17,000 people, destroyed more than 1,000 schools and displaced more than 1.5million people.
The insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria, particularly in the three neighbouring states, the UN children’s agency said earlier this week.
Boko Haram has sworn allegiance to the Islamic State and often displays its trademark black flag. Only a few days ago, the Islamic State, to which Boko Haram is affiliated, said its West Africa division had launched more than 100 attacks, killing more than 1,000 people over the past two months, the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist websites, reported.
The jihadists have allied themselves with the Islamic State group, but experts doubt the scale and scope of the collaboration.
Still, there are growing fears that a once localised hardline Muslim movement is morphing into a regional jihadist threat as Boko Haram launches attacks on Nigeria’s neighbours Chad, Cameroon and Niger.