When news of the release of the three clerics; Rev. Fathers Gianantonio Alligri and Giampaolo Marta from Venice in Italy and Rev. Sister Gilberte Bussiere from Canada, was disclosed early yesterday 1 June 2014 to Cameroon Tribune by our Maroua Desk's Chief correspondent, it sounded like a dream. But by 9:45 a.m, an official statement signed by the Minister, Secretary General at the Presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, was read on CRTV Radio confirming the news. It became clear then that no cover-up hung over the information on the three victims who were kidnapped on 4 April 2014 at Tcherie in Meri Subdivision in the Maroua-Mokolo Diocese.
The coincidence between the abduction and the recent visit to the Far North by defence officials from Yaounde had appeared like an act of provocation by the Boko Haram sect that was not in its first exploit in the locality. Cameroon suffered two other kidnappings by the militants last year with a French priest, Georges Vandenbeusch and the Fournier-Moulin family of seven. They were later liberated, thanks to the diplomatic tact of President Paul Biya and the valiant Cameroonian defence forces working in collaboration with Nigeria.
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