Cameroon soldiers are taking advantage of the absence of Niger Delta militants in the Gulf of Guinea by terrorising Nigerians fishing or doing business there.
Just yesterday morning, the gendarmes killed six Nigerians in Bakassi territorial waters 10 days after the militants surrendered their weapons and left the creeks of Bakassi peninsula.
Frank Dudu, one of the leaders of the militant groups that turned in their arms on September 25 at the headquarters of Bakassi Local Government Area, revealed that the Nigerians, made up of fishermen and businessmen, were killed in an unprovoked attack.
He said intelligence reports reaching him from remnants of Bakassi Salvation Front and Bakassi Freedom Fighters still holding forth at the creeks indicate that some Nigerians were killed in the high seas of the peninsula on Thursday following a raid carried out by the gendarmes.
The reports said the gendarmes on a routine patrol of the island swooped on the Nigerians at Abana and Atabong areas of the peninsula which are one and half hours boat ride from Ikang near Akpabuyo Local Government Area. Ikang is the headquarters of the new Bakassi Local Government.
Shortly after killing the Nigerians, the soldiers took off but not without warning other Nigerians to stay off their (Cameroon) territory following the ceding of the oil-rich island to the Republic of Cameroon based on the World Court judgment of October 10, 2002. Nigeria's sovereignty over Bakassi faded into history on August 14, 2008.
Mr. Dudu said if the militants had not left the creeks, the gendarmes would not have ventured in as members of Bakassi Salvation Front and Bakassi Freedom Fighters in the last five years, protected the Nigerian end of the island despite the judgment at the Hague. He called on the Nigerian government to step up security if its citizens in Bakassi as the Cameroonians have become very brutal and hostile.
He said that if Nigerian security personnel do not halt the insurgency of the gendarmes on Nigerians fishing or trading in the peninsula, both militant groups might be forced to return to the creeks to do so as those being killed were their brothers and sisters struggling to earn a living.
Mr. Dudu denied that they were using the shooting incident as an excuse to go back, saying that having surrendered their arms under the terms of the amnesty, they can not take up arms again.
He advised the Nigerian government to investigate the Thursday incident as they were not making unfounded allegation against Cameroon adding that ever since they vacated the creeks, the Nigerian navy and other security operatives have not bothered to patrol the island leaving Nigerians still living at Abana,
Atabong, James Town, Archibong Town and other settlements at the mercy of the gendarmes.
He said after killing the six Nigerians, the soldiers took away their money, fish, and other valuables. There was weeping and wailing by other Nigerians who watched the gory murder, he said.
Mr. Dudu and other militants are in a rehabilitation camp at Akamkpa about 50 kilometers from Calabar, capital of Cross River State. Some leaders of the two groups stay in a hotel in Calabar. Source: 234next.com
Posted: at 16-10-2009 09:11 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac
prinze_abdel at 16-10-2009 09:19 AM (15 years ago) (m)
what do u want me to do?
Posted: at 16-10-2009 09:19 AM (15 years ago) | Upcoming
shanique at 16-10-2009 12:40 PM (15 years ago) (f)
what did cameroon do again? if u want to join ur army and get killed too then join..if not stop singing a song here...
U SwEaR U KnOw Me CuZ Ya HeArD My NaMe BuT iF Ya EvA rEaLLy MeT Me YuD KnOw Da GaMe dRaMa NeVa EnDs And HaTaS ArE aLL tHa SaMe tHeY sMiLe To Ya FacE aNd sPiT oN yA NaMe
Posted: at 16-10-2009 12:40 PM (15 years ago) | Hero
solo4real at 16-10-2009 01:40 PM (15 years ago) (m)
This government is so irresponsible, what other term can be used to describe a govt that folds its arms while its citizens are been killed and brutalized in Libya, Germany, UK and even on our home-soil..Bakassi. Maybe its time we all took our destinies into our own hands, we deserve to live and we must FIGHT TO LIVE! GOD BLESS NIGERIANS!
Posted: at 16-10-2009 01:40 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
What else do u expect. NO COUNTRY EVER GAVE A DISPUTED LAND AWAY THE WAY NAIJA DID. Go thru the history of wars, u will realize that 9 out of every 10 conflicts are land related. Only for some short sighted politicians to decide that it was the right thing to do? And what do we get/gain from the international community in return? precisely nothing. Rather we have shown how weak our foreign policy is. Now the int'l body see us as a stupid country with no direction. ICJ ruling or not that land should not have been ceded, the worst is yet to come from gendarmes.
Posted: at 16-10-2009 01:49 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
bigbenjy at 16-10-2009 04:31 PM (15 years ago) (m)
MAY THE GENTLE SOUL OF THE GENERAL SANI ABACHA REST IN PEACE ........cameroun u guys have thou 4gtten what happen 94,95,96 remember yaounde was just a stonethrow from where our soldiers stopped advancing.pls,do not provoke the wrath our young men in arms.
Posted: at 16-10-2009 04:31 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
shanique at 16-10-2009 10:53 PM (15 years ago) (f)
lol ^^^^^^^^
U SwEaR U KnOw Me CuZ Ya HeArD My NaMe BuT iF Ya EvA rEaLLy MeT Me YuD KnOw Da GaMe dRaMa NeVa EnDs And HaTaS ArE aLL tHa SaMe tHeY sMiLe To Ya FacE aNd sPiT oN yA NaMe
Posted: at 16-10-2009 10:53 PM (15 years ago) | Hero
This government is so irresponsible, what other term can be used to describe a govt that folds its arms while its citizens are been killed and brutalized in Libya, Germany, UK and even on our home-soil..Bakassi. Maybe its time we all took our destinies into our own hands, we deserve to live and we must FIGHT TO LIVE! GOD BLESS NIGERIANS!
Amen!! my bro!:)
Posted: at 17-10-2009 02:12 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac
BuT iF Ya EvA rEaLLy MeT Me YuD KnOw Da GaMe dRaMa NeVa EnDs And HaTaS ArE aLL tHa SaMe tHeY sMiLe To Ya FacE aNd sPiT oN yA NaMe 
........cameroun u guys have thou 4gtten what happen 94,95,96 remember yaounde was just a stonethrow from where our soldiers stopped advancing.pls,do not provoke the wrath our young men in arms. 
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