THE Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, has formed an alliance with Ambazonian, a Southern Cameroon-based separatist group. The alliance is pursuant to ongoing attempts by both groups to secede from and from separate nations from Nigeria and Cameroon, respectively.
Announcement of the alliance, which occurred during the BNYL convention that just concluded in Enugu, was witnessed by members of the two groups. The BNYL leader Princewill Chimezie, who spoke at the occasion, said that the alliance of the two agitating groups had been going on for a long time but was being re-planned to give powerful a more powerful and compelling to their collective intentions for self-determination.
Chimezie revealed that the Enugu convention was predicated on how to re-strategize and enable self-defense mechanisms for Biafrans and Ambazonians in the escalating security challenges confronting the people of Eastern Nigeria and Southern Cameroon.
He noted that BNYL was a multi-national pro-Biafra group whose membership were taken out from all the ethnic races in the former Eastern Nigeria that were parts of the extinct Republic of Biafra led by General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu between 1967 and 1970.
Chimezie said: “We resolved to defend ourselves by any means possible and we are not afraid to say that because we can’t continue to sit down and watch enemies massacre our people. I am afraid we may resort to guerilla movement. We have been most prominent in the Bakassi areas where we developed partnership with Ambazonia because we found out that Biafra has a similar problem with southern Cameroon.
Ambazonia needs our help just as we need theirs. We have both had affinity to achieve independence in different ways and the collaboration is meant to hear one another’s cry.”
One of the Ambazonia ambassadors and President of Universal Negro Improvement Association, UNIA in Calabar Cross River state, Comrade Enow Arrey said he was a refugee in Nigeria because of the spate of murders of Ambazonians in Southern Cameroon.
Arrey said: “I found out that my brothers in Nigeria have the same problem with Southern Cameroon people. My mission is to speak that Africa has the right to decolonize their place. We’ve decided that our people must be one as they were before colonization.
UNIA will support the Biafra movement before we can deserve respect. We are fighting for peace in Cameroon and if that peace needs a separate state, we will do that. The peace is either for federalism or separation, and just self-defence in support of self-defence”.