A militant separatist group suspected to be linked to Biafra Nations League (BnL) on Tuesday (June 6) evening chased out five oil workers from Bakassi Peninsula, IgbereTV has learned.
According to Converseer the incident happened at about 7pm following a gun battle between the separatist group and the Rapid d’intervention Battalion (BIR), a Cameroonian military unit at Idabato subdivision.
Sources say the oil workers were foreigners and boarded a speed boat to explore oil in the area. “The militants, suspected to be working with the BnL were advancing towards the oil workers before the military opened fire, no casualty was recorded”.
IgbereTV had earlier reported that the Leader of BnL, Princewill Chimezie Richard in a press interview in Cross River State has ordered Nigeria and Cameroon to stop oil exploration in the region if Nnamdi Kanu is not released unconditionally as ordered by several local and international courts.
Nnamdi Kanu
The group also asked Cameroon to withdraw its forces from Bakassi Peninsula and end the imposition of tax on the people of the region. Kanu is being held by the Nigerian Government for leading the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), an offence the APC-led administration tagged “treasonable felony”.
He was extraordinarily renditioned to Nigeria from Kenya and has since been held at the Department of State Security facility in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
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