Diaspora Digital Media has intercepted a communication involving some top ranking officers of Biafra Nations League (BNL), operating in Bakassi peninsula as they plot to hijack any vessel that will pass through the Eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea on Thursday, if the Federal Government of Nigeria fails to release Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), who is facing terrorism charges.
In the intercepted communication, the Operational Coordinator of BNL, Henry Edet was heard, directing his lieutenants to take every necessary measure in making sure that any vessel that passes through the Eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea on Thursday is hijacked.
“All Marine commandos must be on standby. Seize and take control of any vessel crossing through the Eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea on Thursday. I repeat, seize and take control of any vessel crossing through the Eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea on Thursday. This is an order. This order will be sustained until Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra”, the communication partly reads.
The group also threatened to bomb oil installations at the maritime borders of Nigeria and Cameroon.
“If the enemies refuses to release Nnamdi Kanu, target and bomb oil installations at the maritime borders of Nigeria and Cameroon. This is a standing order”, the message added.
At the time of filing this report, Diaspora Digital Media gathered that the Cameroonian authorities have already deployed gun boats to different locations ahead of tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the threat is coming after the same militant group launched a vicious attack on a security checkpoint in Bakassi peninsula manned by Cameroon Gendarmes near residential quarters used by staff of an oil company.
However, Nnamdi Kanu will know his fate on the terrorism charges brought against him by the Federal Government on November 20.
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja, where Kanu is standing trial, fixed the date.
The judge announced the date after Kanu failed to open his defence, having exhausted the six days allocated to him by the court to present his case.
Justice Omotosho held that since Kanu failed to utilise the opportunity granted to him to conduct his defence, he could not claim to have been denied his constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair hearing.
