MP questions Cavaye to name accomplices of Boko Haram in Cameroon

Joseph Mbah Ndam, MP from the main opposition party and vice president of the National Assembly, has invited the president of Parliament to reveal supposed accomplices of the Islamic sect Boko Haram.

He said this in an interview with the newspaper Mutations, published on Wednesday, June 17, 2015.

Joseph Mbah Ndam, MP of the Social Democratic Front, took a hard stance on the issue of supposed accomplices of Boko Haram within the Chamber. "If anyone says that the accomplices of Boko Haram are among us, it is clear and we will eliminate them," he said.

The president of the lower house of Cameroon, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, made the statement in his inaugural address at the second parliamentary session of the legislative year, that "no outside force can deliberately destabilize the Republic of Cameroon but some citizens who are involved in such an attempt."

This was an embarrassing situation for the vice president of the chamber who did not agree to what the Right Honourable Cavaye Yeguie Djibril said. "At the session of June 2015, the President of the National Assembly had already declared that the accomplices of Boko Haram are among us and we were summoned to name them.

"We do not want to be accused, as we know nothing about the operation and activities of the Boko Haram sect. Cavaye said the accomplices are among us but he had to say that X and Y members are members of Boko Haram for the whole world to know. In any case, I am a stranger to all this," he said.

The Honourable Joseph Mbah Ndam also thinks that the problem with Boko Haram is outside politics but rather a humanitarian issue and for that matter it should not divide the National Assembly: "we all agree that members of Boko Haram must all be destroyed because their actions are not human," he concluded.