Bakassi Strike Force sends message to Buhari

While President Muhammadu Buhari desperately seeks an end to militancy in the Niger Delta region, the agitators are making demands
The Bakassi Strike Force, one of the militant groups in the region, says it is not ready to destroy government facilities
The group however wants President Muhammadu Buhari to listen to its condition since its members want to surrender
A major Niger Delta militant group, the Bakassi Strike Force (BSF) is set to surrender their arms but the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari must meet one condition.
Elders from the region had met with the president on Tuesday, November 1 and reportedly tabled some demands before him.
Bakassi Strike Force has made a special demand as condition to surrender
Daily Post reports that the leader of the BSF, who simply goes by the name, Benjamin, aka ‘Humble Lion G1’, has revealed that his men are ready to surrender but that the federal government must first resolve the Bakassi crisis.
This would be the second time Benjamin is making the same demand, saying it the welfare of the Bakassi people now torn between Nigeria and Cameroon provoked the militants to act.
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According to him, the militant group is not prepared to destroy national assets but to ensure that the government acted in with consideration for the people of the troubled area.
In a statement, Benjamin said: “The BSF has been agitating against the poor implementation of the Greentree Agreement after ceding Bakassi to Cameroon, leaving Nigerians resident in the peninsular without proper resettlement.
“We are ready to lay down our arms and embrace dialogue under a process to be brokered by the international community to ensure that Nigerian returnees are properly resettled and rehabilitated.

“Our grievance against the federal government has to do with the way Nigeria ceded our ancestral land to Cameroon without recourse to the feelings and rights of the people to self determination.
“Under the Greentree Agreement, there are steps to be taken to ensure that the fundamental rights of the returnees are protected but the government has not fulfilled its obligations under the agreement.”