Eighty-nine members of Boko Haram insurgents have been sentenced to death by a Cameroonian military court for their role in various attacks in the north of the country.
Boko Haram is a militant group from Nigeria and has been terrorising inhabitants of communities in the north-eastern part of Nigeria and bordering towns in Cameroon.
It was gathered that about 850 Boko Haram suspects are being detained in Cameroon.
It was the activities of the terrorists’ group that led to the formation of a Multi-National Joint Task Force among Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Benin in March 2015.
In 2014, Cameroon enacted a new anti-terror law, which stipulates death sentence on terrorists.
The execution of the 89 Boko Haram members will be the first since the new anti-terror law was approved.
It would be recalled that in a video published in January 2015, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau threatened to attack Cameroon and assassinate President Paul Biya unless the Francophone country abandoned its secular constitution and embraced Islam.
Biya has previously vowed to wipe out Boko Haram and said in his New Year message in December 2015 that “not one centimeter of our territory has been ceded to the aggressors.”
