By Francis Ekongang Nzante
Lieutenant Colonel Ekosso Lysonge Francis, Deputy National Coordinator of the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Committee, DDRC recently installed and tasked to get to work immediately, brings in about twenty years of experience working at the service of the nation, Cameroon. He was installed on Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 at the National Head Office of DDRC in Yaounde by the National Coordinator, Fai Yengo Francis.
Speaking during the installation ceremony, the National Coordinator described his deputy as a distinguished, hardworking and intelligent servant of the State, having spent over 20 years on the field in the service of the nation.
Fai Yengo Francis said the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Ekosso Lysonge Francis comes as “an added impetus to the achievements of the DDRC which is about to celebrate its 2nd anniversary and a very sure way and means to continue achieving the global and specific objectives of this specific strategic and operational structure.”
In a very optimistic tone, the erstwhile Governor said Lieutenant Colonel Ekosso Lysonge Francis was equal to the task set before him and urged him to use his operational experience to execute the activities of DDRC on the field. Hear him, “You should invest your energy and join your efforts so that together with our collaborators we should, without fear or complex and very far away from politics and all sorts of flimsy distractions, materialise the dream of an orderly reintegration of the youths who yesterday were involved in a senseless struggle against their fatherland but today have responded favourably to the fatherly hand of fellowship from the President of the Republic, His Excellency Paul Biya.”
In a brush with the media , Lt. Colonel Ekosso Francis said he was ready to serve and to carry out the tasks set before him. “We have fighters in the bush whom we want to bring out for the peace of Cameroon but we are doing a very detailed scientific analysis of it and it is not only a matter of the ex-fighters, but those who have ideological inputs into this kind of crisis from the Far North to the North West and South West. They too have to lay down their ideological arms because they are the ones who instigate it all. It is not just the children who have been fooled to lose their lives, but many people” Lt. Colonel Ekosso Francis said.
The new National Deputy Coordinator of DDRC has in the past served in several capacities with the National Defence Force. The last post he held before his latest appointment was that of Chief of Division in the National Fire Brigade at Mimboman in Yaounde.
The Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintergration Committee was created on the 30th of November 2018 by Presidential Decree to organise, disarm, demobilise and reintegrate ex-Boko Haram fighters and armed groups in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon. The DDRC has centers in Mora, Buea and Bamenda. The centers have already received hundreds of excombatants and continue to do so.
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