The Cameroon Air Force has carried out airstrikes in the creeks of Bakassi Peninsula to flush out Biafra separatist groups, the Black Marine and Dragon Fighter Marine, which have reportedly been launching attacks on the military installations and personnel of the central African country.
Recall that the separatist groups see Bakassi as part of their would-be country and had rejected the ceding of the peninsular to Cameroon by the Nigerian government.
Unconfirmed reports say the Dragon Fighter Marine militant group had attacked and killed members of Cameroon’s Rapid D’intervention Battalions (BIR) in the area a few days ago resulting in retaliatory attacks by men of the BIR that left two militants dead.
Reports say a suspected suicide bomber had also blown up oil installations at the maritime border of Bakassi in Cameroon. This could not be independently confirmed as at press time.
In a separate development, the Dragon Fighter Marine had on October 31, in an attempt to invade the Atabong East communities in Cameroon’s Idabato subdivision, attacked an army combat unit of the Cameroonian BIR, killing three of the troops in a face- to- face confrontation.
However, sources close to the separatist groups told Blueprint in Calabar that the aerial bombardment, which took place in the early hours of November 2 in the creeks of Akpankanya village, was aimed at flushing out Biafra rebel groups terrorising the area. No casualty was reported as at the time of filling this report.
Simon Ekpa, a Finland based Biafra Separatist leader, sometimes ago, had posted on X (former Twitter) that he would aid the militant groups in the peninsula which he referred to as the Biafran Naval wing.
Meanwhile, the Biafra Nations League (BnL), a group suspected to be the parent body of the Black Marine and Dragon Fighter Marine, has remained silent after threatening international businesses, oil exploitation in the Gulf of Guinea.
The BnL is led by one Princewill Chimezie Richard.