Fresh tension in Bakassi as Nigerian Army occupy community of Biafra League leader, Princewill Richards

There is emerging indication of rising tension in the Bakassi Peninsula as the community of the Biafra Nations League (BnL) leader, Princewill Chimezie Richards, was said to be occupied by the Nigerian Army.

Princewill Chimezie Richards, Leader of Biafra Nations League

The Biafra Nations League has been in the vanguard of the agitation for the actualization of the Biafra Sovereign Sate in the Bakassi Peninsula and the Gulf of Guinea; supplementing the activities of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) on the upland led by Nnamdi Kanu.
There were reports at the weekend that the “Nigerian Army have taken over two communities, including the maternal hometown of a well known Pro Biafra campaigner, Princewill Chimezie Richards”.

There has been perennial violence in Anara and Amaraku communities precipitated by compulsive enforcement of the sit-at-home order coordinated by Simon Ekpa, Finland-based Biafra separatist leader.

The Deputy Leader of Biafra Nations League, Ebuta Takon, had earlier make a strong case for the withdrawal of the military from the country home of the BnL leader. He blamed the Nigerian Army for the killing of two Igbo youths on Saturday in Owerri, Imo State.

Meanwhile, there is no official statement from either the Black Marine, the militia wing of the BnL, or the Biafra Nations League on the whereabouts of Princewill Richards or the responses of the group to the military operations.