ADF confirms death of 11 combatants, says Cameroon military offensive at headquarters came in wake of major operation
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ambazonia Defense Forces, an armed group operating in the North West and South West regions, Dr Cho Ayaba Lucas has confirmed that they lost 11 fighters during an invasion at their headquarters in Batibo, North West region.
State security apparatus started the mission on July 28, 2022 and to remain invisible, they trekked for long distances and into the forests to arrived at Enyo, Ewai and Bossom where they attacked the ADF at several fronts.
The ADF Chief said, “Since you called for your first lockdown, the enemy sent more than 2000 soldiers to our base and you people have shown extraordinary bravery. We have lost 11 of our men including our finest Colonel. Today when we spoke you people were still in battle as the internal enemies are on social media crying.”
According to the spokesman of the Ambazonia Defense Forces, Capo Daniel, the attack on their bases was well calculated by Cameroon forces. He revealed that the ADF was planning to launch an operation to capture a major city “We had rallied over 300 forces in Batibo to carry out an operation called SunRise where we would have taken over a major city in Ambazonia and hold for the duration of a lockdown we called that starts today 2nd and ends on Friday 5th of this month.”
The ADF said they also inflicted pains on Cameroon forces and watched them airlift dead bodies and wounded soldiers five times. But the Cameroon military said they only had 11 injuries and killed 15 ADF members.
“Our forces have regrouped and will enforce the lockdown even as we scraped the Planned Operation SubRise,” Capo concluded.
It remains uncertain how the government forces were aware of such an operation but being the first time to call a one month lockdown, the new military general in Bamenda, General Bouba Donekreo knew something was cooking and decided to attack first before waiting for the commencement of the ADF lockdown- striking the enemy first!
General Bouba is a former commander of the Rapid Intervention Battalion, Cameroon’s elite forces. He is also known as the man who weakened Boko Haram terrorists in the far north region.
His recent appointment to the fifth military region has been seen as a strategy to eliminate Ambazonia forces in the region with the tactics they used against the Islamist group.
