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The National Boundary Commission has withdrawn its staff and stopped work at the Nigeria-Cameroon border in Adamawa due to the recent killing of five of its officials by unknown gunmen.

Dr Muhammed Ahmad, Director General of the Commission made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.

Ahmad, who condemned the attack and killing, said the officials were on duty placing demarcation pillars at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon in Adamawa when they were ambushed by unknown gunmen.

“This kind of a thing has never happened before, this is the first time we are experiencing such.

“Our staff was out placing pillars at the border when suddenly they were attacked by armed robbers, who killed them and took away their belongings.

“For now we have called off the exercise and withdrawn all our people from the area to Yola till further notice.

“We are going to have a meeting with the United Nations Officials in Dakar on the issue to resolve the problem, though the Cameroon security agents are presently investigating the case,’’ Ahmad said.

The DG, who is currently in Adamawa State to assess the situation on ground, said among the five killed were three Nigerians, one was the staff of the commission named Mr Abdullahi Baffa.

Ahmad described the deceased as hardworking, dedicated and a goal getter.

He said that the other Nigerians that were killed were staff of the Adamawa State Government and an employee of the contractor handling the job respectively.

The DG added that the Nigerians had already been buried on Wednesday in Yola while the corpses of the foreigners killed were in the Mortuary at the Federal Medical Centre, Yola.

He told NAN that the foreigners killed were, a UN official from Kenya and a Cameroonian, who were all part of the team working on the border.

Ahmad said that the plans were being made to transfer the corpses to their various countries for proper burial.

NAN gathered that the team was attacked on Tuesday in Koncha community in Cameroon and Tipsan in Nigeria, which is the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. (NAN)

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