This was a hard Blow for the Cameroonian defense forces who are currently at the front in the Far North region to fight the heavily armed men presented as being the members of the terrorist sect Boko Haram.

Colonel Maurice Mbai Toundam, Commander of the number 4 terrestrial military sector died Friday, September 12, aftera brief illness, specifies a press release from the Minister delegate at the Presidency of the Republic responsible for defense.

The senior officer was transferred at the beginning of the week in emergency situation from Maroua to Yaounde. He gave up the ghost while he was under intensive care in the political capital. The quarantine well sounded, Mauritius Mbai Toundam had been entrusted with the 4th military sector (SM4) by the head of State reorganizing the military arrangements in Cameroon.

He was responsible for the general discipline of military and civilian personnel of the sector, of the material organization of the operations of recruitment of personnel and in liaison with the legion of gendarmerie, the follow-up for the mobilization of reserves, the compendium of centralization and the dissemination of military intelligence and information from defense.

In addition, the commander of a military sector by delegation of the commander of the military region joint, provides the control, monitoring and protection of agencies, establishments, workshops of stores, deposits and military infrastructure common departmental specialized or implanted in the sector is placed under its responsibility.