FIGHTING BOKO HARAM : HOW CAPTAIN YARI , LT COL KWENE WERE KILLED...

They were killed during two separate epic battles dubbed “Arrow 5,”carried out by Cameroon’s Special Defense and Security forces, against the terrorist Boko Haram group  in  Ngoshe, an area in Nigeria. Ngoshe is located some 15 Km from Ashigashia, a locality in the Far North Region of Cameroon.The Cameroonian forces were accompanied by the Nigerian army and the Multinational Joint Task Force made up of five countries.

After the deadly operation, 162 Boko Haram militants were ‘neutralised.’ Explosive holders, suicide bomber vests, machine guns, detonating cords, batteries and other weapons were confiscated. Four artisan mine  factories were dismantled. Fifteen Cameroonian hostages including scores of others from Nigeria were freed. 

CAPTAINS YARI , MBENE $ LT COL KWENE : RESPECT!

CPT YARI / LT KWENE, SLAIN

In the first operation in the morning of 11 February 2016, the leading Commander of the Cameroonian forces Captain Pipwoh Yari Emmanuel and his men put up a ferocious resistance against Boko Haram terrorists stationed along the road to Ngoshe , Nigeria.

He was shot and killed during the battle. Cameroonian defense forces however succeed to capture the enemy's  training base.

Then on February 14 Lt Colonel Kwene Ekwele Beltus Honore lost his life, when he was on mission to handover hostages to Nigerian authorities in the nearby town of Pilka, Nigeria.

Lt Col Kwene's vehicle stepped into a landmine earlier planted by Boko Haram militants. The survivors in the second operation were transported to Maroua and then to Douala for treatment.

MINCOM : THAT WAR NOT EASY

Cameroon’s Communication Minister, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who at a press conference in Yaoundé, February 15 2016 narrated how the two senior military officers were killed saluted their bravery and re-echoed government's  resolve to eradicate Boko Haram insurgency on Cameroonian soil.

A graduate from the Yaoundé Combined Military Academy, EMIA, Captain Yari was 31 while Lt Colonel Kwene, an artillery officer was 39. 

The death of the duo brings to three the number of top Cameroonian military officers killed in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists. Captain Elvis Matute Mbene was killed February 25 2015.