COVID-19 lockdown: Biafra group mocks Buhari, says ‘We cross over to Cameroon without hindrance’

A South East-based group, the Biafra Nations Youth League (BNYL), has rubbished the extension order of the lockdown of Nigeria by two weeks as announced, on Monday evening, by President Muhammadu Buhari on account of the Coronavirus pandemic.

In a statement signed by BNYL’s National Deputy Leader and Head of Biafra Broadcasting Service, Ebuta Takon Akor,  copies of which were made available tpo newsmen, on Tuesday morning, the group confirmed that its members were still crossing to neighbouring Cameroon to collaborate with Southern Cameroon separatists despite the lockdown in Nigeria.

The secessionist group boasted that the lockdown extension would not affect its activities, adding that it had endured enough and could not continue to suspend its activities.

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The group maintained that members of Boko Haram and ravaging Fulani herdsmen were not affected by the lockdown, ‘because they have their way’.

The group’s statement read in part, “They can’t punish us. It is surprising for them to know that we have been crossing to Cameroon and entering Nigeria at will since the lockdown.

“You can see it has no effect on us, our struggle is all about risk, and we are taking the risks in collaboration with the Ambazonians, we receive the Ambazonians (secessionist group based in Southern Cameroon) and they too receive us in their domain.

“BNYL knows all nooks and crannies in both the inland border and waterways and we can beat any total lockdown of the country,” the statement added.

He said Nigeria was lucky that BNYL does not operate like Boko Haram, otherwise the country would suffer a serious setback fighting two wars.