Pro-Biafra group threatens to shut down oil facilities, gives Nigerian govt 14 days to release Kanu

A pro-Biafran group, Biafra Nations League (BnL) has given the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to release the incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, or face a shut down of all oil exploration in the Nigeria/Cameroon maritime borders.

The threat which was made by the leader of the group, Princewill Chimezie Richard, also extended the ultimatum to the withdrawal of military troops from the South-East region.

Richard, at a press conference in Calabar on Saturday, also called on Cameroonian authorities “to desist from forcing and collecting proliferated taxes from Nigerians living in the Bakassi Peninsula.