The group, which has been operating in Bakassi and disrupting business activities in the Gulf of Guinea, in a statement made available to The Guardian in Calabar at weekend insisted that “BnL will go after oil companies to ensure that oil exploration is shut down within weeks.”
The Chairman of the Senior Officials of BnL, Mr. Godstime Ntukidem, in the statement accused security operatives of searching for the national leader of BnL, Princewill Richards, and other senior officials for hosting Ambazonia fighters in the Peninsula,
He said: “A team of police and soldiers have been moving around Ikang, and Ekpri Ikang in Bakassi Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State entering different guest houses in the area and harassing the management, suspecting that the leaders of the group were lodged there.
“The BnL leadership is not afraid and would not be made to succumb. The group is fighting a just cause without terrorising communities and natives of areas of their influence.”
The BnL is demanding a sovereign state of Biafra declared on May 30, 1967, which sparked three years civil war. There are also demanding the release of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and leader of Biafra Zionist Federation (BZF), Benjamin Onwuka, and others in detention.
