Cameroon has deployed about 500 men from its navy to Lake Chad to stop the activities of the Boko Haram terrorist group.
The officers were mobilized less than a week after Cameroon announced it was contributing 2,450 troops to the Ndjamena-based multi-national joint forces to quash Boko Haram.
Navy chief of staff, Rear Admiral Mendoua Jean expressed that Boko Haram fighters may be using Lake Chad and its basin to prepare attacks on states in the region after they were dislodged from their Sambisa Forest hideout in raids by the Nigerian army.
He said the troops in the field and those joining them will spare no effort and neglect no details in their mission to crush the Boko Haram insurgents.
The navy will share information and coordinate intelligence to keep watch over Lake Chad shared by Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Benin and Niger, he said.
Last week, Cameroon announced it had contributed 2,450 troops to the joint forces to fight the insurgency, more than triple the 700 it had earlier pledged.
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that service chiefs defeat Boko Haram in three months.
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