Biafra militia blows up crude oil ship, military gunboats in Bakassi Peninsula

A militia group of the Biafra separatist movement operating in the Gulf of Guinea and the Bakassi Peninsula, Dragon Fighter Marine, after seeming retreat from a recent airstrike by the Cameroonian military, renewed hostilities in the Gulf, blowing up a ship conveying crude oil, as well as two military gunboats in the border zone of Bakassi Peninsula.

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The militia group, loyal to the Biafra Nations League (BNL), also reportedly killed three military men of the Joint Border Forces, leaving six persons critical condition.

According to a source, the vessel anchored at the creek, waiting to load crude oil at the depot, but suddenly the militants struck, shooting wildly and blew up the oil vessel and two military gunboats in the attack.

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The Bakassi Peninsula has been a turbulent zone since the Biafra agitation. It has been the operational territory of the Biafra Nations League (BnL), supported by the Black Marine; to which the Dragon Fighter Marine and other militia groups have joined to step up military action in the water ways of the Nigeria/ Cameroon border communities.

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Meanwhile, Biafra Fighter Dragon are fighting on different militia identity from the Black marine. Both militia groups are, however, loyal to the Biafra separatist movement operating in the gulf. The main body coordinating agitation activities in the border communities of the Bakassi Peninsula in the Gulf of Guinea has been the Biafra Nations League.

They have been more confrontational with the Cameroon Armed Forces, and threatening multinational oil companies operating in the gulf, including shipping vessels conveying crude oil out of the region to the Atlantic.

Some members are occasionally arrested by the soldiers.