In Yaoundé, President Joseph Anyangwe was holding a similar security meeting. The previous day, Boko Haram elements had gunned down over fifty citizens and the news was being relayed on both local and international stations around the world every sixty minutes.
“This is completely unacceptable. If President Abela can accept this in his country, we shall not do so here.” By the time the meeting was over, the men had resolved to take certain measures and by the following day these measures saw the mass arrest of every non employed foreigner with incomplete papers or not on Cameroonian soil. Amnesty International and other civil society groups heard about this and immediately condemned it in strongly worded terms in major media stations around the world.