A suspected suicide bomber detained before she could detonate explosives in a town on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria says she is one of the girls kidnapped from a Nigerian school at Chibok in 2014.
Babila Akao, the highest-ranking official in Mayo Sava — an administrative area on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria — says he asked the military and local self-defense groups to arrest or kill three suicide bombers his intelligence services and the population said had crossed over from Nigeria to Cameroon.
“Yesterday in the night we had information that three suicide bombers, young women had been brought from Banki into Limani and Amchide,” said Akao. “Immediately I informed the D.O.’s [local administrative authorities] of Kolofata and Mora and my colleagues of the forces of law {military} and also all the members of the committee [self-defense groups] have been on the field and their work has given what you see today.”
