SSGN:
January 30 2018.

Cameroonian soldiers stormed Danari, a village in Cross RIvers State, on Thursday, demanding that the village head hand over some refugees to them.The leader turned down the request and the troops left without hurting anybody.

On Monday night, however, the soldiers returned. Numbering between 50 and 100 invaded the village at about 2:00 a.m. on Monday, shooting intermittently.

The geopolitical struggle between Nigeria and her Francophone neighbours shows the Franco-alliance is winning. Nigeria's incoherent and snail pace condemnation and failing to make Cameroon accountable for its brazen violation of Nigerian territory shows the erosion of Nigeria's military power and influence in the region is real. The timidity of Abuja in the face of this violations gives the perceptions that the economic and military order of West Africa Nigeria crafted is rapidky being eroded, and the balance of power is, for the first time since the formation of ECOWAS shifting from Anglo West Africa to Franco West Africa.

[b]However, more worrying to Nigeria , many ECOWAS members seem increasingly ambivalent regarding the spectre of France and her vassals dominating the region.

Nigeria as it stands is a paper tiger and can no longer be regarded as a regional power, at least militarily, that rank should go to Cameroon and Chad. Cameroon was able to kidnap/force the repatriation of the leader of the Ambazonian separatists in Abuja wuth relative ease, transport them to Yaounde, have them tortured and locked up, and the very next day invade a Nigerian village.

How on earth can a foreign country invade Nigeria, kill Nigerian citizens on Nigerian soil repeatedly with absolutely careless abandon?

This is akin to Canada invading the United States on multiple occasions, killing hundreds of Americans, and casually retreating back across the border into Canada on multiple occasions.

Nigeria is perhaps the only country in Africa incapable of defending her citizens from terrorists and foreign power alike. How the mighty have fallen. This is a watershed moment for what used to be the most powerful black nation on Earth.[/b] The $5.6 billion Nigerian military is a disgrace, a shame. Nigeria has become a nation of cowards, the laughing stock of Africa amd rightly so.



History of Provocation

October 2009

A raid carried out Cameroonian gendarmes killed six Nigerians in Bakassi territorial waters 10 days after Niger Delta militants surrendered their weapons and left the creeks of Bakassi peninsula.

Reports said the gendarmes on a routine patrol of the island swooped on the Nigerians at Abana and Atabong areas of the peninsula which are one and half hours boat ride from Ikang near Akpabuyo Local Government Area. Ikang is the headquarters of the new Bakassi Local Government.

Shortly after killing the Nigerians, the soldiers took off but not without warning other Nigerians to stay off their (Cameroon) territory following the ceding of the oil-rich island to the Republic of Cameroon based on the World Court judgment of October 10, 2002. Nigeria's sovereignty over Bakassi faded into history on August 14, 2008.

January 2015

Three hundred Chadian and Cameroonian troops crossed the border into Nigerian territory with amoured vehicles and Mi-17sh attack helicopters, to recapture Nigeria’s border town of Baga from Boko Haram insurgents, without the knowledge or approval of the Nigerian government.

The Nigerian military confirmed it had no knowledge of an order by President Idriss Deby of Chad, deploying that country’s armed forces in pursuit of Boko Haram in Nigerian territory.

Cameroonian gendarmes from Bodam community had, in October 2017, invaded Danare, killing two farmers.

Cameroon had also, in December, abducted five persons from Danare on the claims that they were suspected youths involved in the fight for the creation of Ambazonia.

January 18

Cameroonian soldiers fired rocket-propelled grenades indiscriminately, killing a family of four, then shot and killed two elderly men. The Cameroonian soldiers stole cattle and razed entire villages along a 150-kilometer 95-mile stretch of the border.

November 2015

Cameroonian troops crossed the border into the Nigeria, where they shot and killed about 150 villagers, burned their homes, forcing many of them to flee.

Not a single word of condemnation from Abuja.

December 2015

Cameroonian soldiers storm Kirawa-Jimni, a village in Gwoza local government area of Borno state, and asked where Boko Haram insurgents were, before they could say a word, they opened fire, sending the villagers running helter skelter. By by the time people returned to the scene on 70 corpses were found to be littering the ground.

July 2017

Cameroonian paramilitary unit enforcing a $300 fishing levy kill 97 Nigerian fishermen' in Bakassi. A government spokesman remarked :

This is a calculated offensive from the Cameroonian military on Nigeria. They have shown outright defiance of Nigeria’s territorial sovereignty with no care in the world about possible consequences.
But why should they? The most powerful country in the world operates a Reaper Drone base in the country.

WHY THE CORWADICE? 

Nigerians deserve to know why in response to repetitive provocations by the Cameroonian army, the government has adopted a policy of appeasement, a policy permitting the murder of Nigerians, saying they are partners in the war against terrorism, given excuses for these acts of war ?

Why is Africa's richest country with one of the largest and best funded military capitulating to an aggressor in the hope that aggression will cease or be diverted elsewhere ?

The increase in tensions right after Nigeria ceded Bakassi to Cameroon holds many lessons on appeasment. Give a mouse cheese, it will demand for milk.

These appeasement are borderline stupid and will not forestall outright war, instead its doing just the opposite. As it stands Nigeria is in a state of war. With each concessions and appeasement, our Francophone neighbors are growing in strenght and ambition, forging defense relations with France and the United States.

The Chadian and Cameroonian militaries are modernising very fast. While our government is focused on passing legislatures to allocate grazing rights fo cattle rearers, two of our geo political foes are modernizing their militaries and forging defence pacts with France and the United States, taking them near the capacity of confidently unleashing an all out war with a good chance of winning. This is not Hyperbole.

The only nation seen as capable of seriously constraining France's colonialist ambitions in West Africa is Nigeria. From Nigeria’s standpoint, France has no business “interfering” in the region far from its shores and where its interests are secondary compared to Nigeria's. For Abuja, Paris’s insistence on maintaining a military presence in the region after the destruction of Libya is provocative, destabilizing and illegitimate

Unfortunately West Africa is vastly different today compared to10 or 15 years ago. Nigeria have lost much of its power and influence. In fact, we have become ourselves threatened and interfered with by the two military superpowers of the Western Word. Today the U.S. and France are the biggest security overlords in West Africa.

Nigeria still posses arguably the most formidable military in the region, but it is in the process of decline. The Franco-alliance on the other hand is on the move, having ambitions of taking over wherever Nigeria's influence is diminished. The danger of war definitely is mounting.

Nigeria's leadership needs to step up their game. What is needed is a Nigerian military strategy designed to effectively stop further unauthorized cross border attacks. Such a strategy should begin with an affirmative assertion of Nigeria's interests.

A Nigerian counterstrategy, if it is to have any prospect of success, will have to enlist the full range of its economic capabilities and assets. Stopping trade with landlocked Chad and Cameroon will have reaching consequences, no amount of French economic aid will compensate for it.

But in the immediate term the challenge is military

The Nigerian army should maintain a continuous 24/7 365 presence in Calabar and the surrounding Bakassi islands. They should deploy with no regard for Cameroons ownership the Bakassi Peninsula.This should include, and here the risks are obvious—air and naval transit within 12 nm of at least one of these features.

This measure will establish sufficient hard power deterrence. Nigeria must take a tough stance against unauthorized cross border attacks regardless of the political cost. If Cameroons military grandstanding and provocations are not checked, Nigeria, will be confronted with an irreversible fait accompli.


https://defensenigeria.com/2018/02/01/8303/

giftq:

My friend.
Stop romanticizing war, famine, death, genocide and destruction.
Learn wisdom and learn how to engage in peaceful, rational dialogue.

SSGN:



Hey friend, visit the celebrity gossip section next time. This is then session for genocide and destruction. Thank you.

ReubenE:

As for the Nigeria military, the only program in the psyche of the force is IPOB, illegal refineries, harassment of innocent citizens, social media monitoring, opposition conquest etc.

giftq:

My friend.
Stop romanticizing war, famine, death, genocide and destruction.
Learn wisdom and learn how to engage in peaceful, rational dialogue.

giftq:

My friend.
Stop romanticizing war, famine, death, genocide and destruction.
Learn wisdom and learn how to engage in peaceful, rational dialogue.

ReubenE:

What is this one saying?

Is it that you are blind to see Famine, Death, Genocide, Destruction on going in the country particularly in the area the OP mentioned, or is it that you are simply not just amenable to reason.

ReubenE:
The sudden fist flexing posture of Cameroon in her relations with Nigeria is not a surprise.

A country that does not have regard for the citizens that the leaders swore to protect.
A government that gives lame and inconsistent excuses when the Nigerian territory is encroached on by foreigners, a government that makes every attempt to cover up the murder of its citizens by foreigners rather than do something to make it stop.

The truth of the matter is the Nigerian government cannot do anything to Cameroon or Chad for the continuous violation of our territory. Right now, the government more interested in ethnic or religious agenda, ethnic domination and religious supremacy.

As for the Nigeria military, the only program in the psyche of the force is IPOB, illegal refineries, harassment of innocent citizens, social media monitoring, opposition conquest etc.

Sometimes I wonder what truly is the purpose for the existence of the Nigerian state.
May future generations never meet a country so despicable....

SSGN:



This is beyond sad, and to think Atiku and Buhari are in the running for election. Are we condemned to be ruled by the same old recycled class of incompetent illiterate leaders ? They are running the country to the ground. I have never been this embarrassment. It this a country?

Blue3k:
What do you think chances are of Cameroon defending into civil war? Im wondering if bakassi strike force would be will to fight and return to nigeria.

SSGN:



This is beyond sad, and to think Atiku and Buhari are in the running for election. Are we condemned to be ruled by the same old recycled class of incompetent illiterate leaders ? They are running the country to the ground. I have never been this embarrassment. It this a country?

giftq:

The solution to Famine, Death, Genocide and Destruction is not MORE Famine, Death, Genocide and Destruction .

ReubenE:

My brother, the length of occurrence is actually More Death, Famine and Destruction especially when it goes unabated.

Nobody is asking Nigeria to go to war. This admonishment is only for the Nigeria government to be more swift and resolute in our foreign policy.

There is no sane country in the world that watch on when her citizens are killed and maimed by foreigners.
Hence, the above puts Nigeria in the league of mad countries.

giftq:

you have a point.
The so-called nigerian armed forces are too politicized to make any meaningful decision.

SSGN:



This is beyond sad, and to think Atiku and Buhari are in the running for election. Are we condemned to be ruled by the same old recycled class of incompetent illiterate leaders ? They are running the country to the ground. I have never been this embarrassment. It this a country?

Efewestern:
Buhari is a big failure, a disgrace to the Presidential seat of the Federal republic of Nigeria.

How on earth will a country like Cameroon invade our land without the military taking any actions, is it because the country main source of income is not being threatened? (Niger Delta)




@bolded BTW Buhari and Atiku I don't know who is more clueless, it's a pity that we don't have good leader In this part of the world, why on earth will the Nigeria government release Ambazonian separatists to the Cameroonian government?

We should have been neutral on this.