Thread by @DefenseNigeria

There 70,000 Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria the world doesn't seem to care about. Around 60 Cameroonian soldiers recently invaded the villages of Mairogo and Tosso, harassing and intimidating their inhabitants, refugees in Nigeria.

In January 2022, Cameroonian soldiers invaded Mairogo, warning residents they will be back and torching homes.

In February 2022 Cameroonian soldiers again invaded Mairogo. They severely beat several residents, and arrested and took with them four young people..

In 2017 Zacharia Okana, a political opponent of the regime of President Paul Biya fled Cameroon in 2017 for fear of arrest. He should be safe in Nigeria right?

In September 2020 Cameroonian gendarmes stormed the border town of Ikom and illegally arrested him...

took him back to Cameroon, where he spent three months in prison.

In 2018 Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, a supporter of the Ambazobian separatist movement and several others were arrested at Nera hotel in Abuja and driven all the way across the border back to Cameroon to be tortured.

Cameroon deny these incidents while the Nigerian armed forces is quiet. The fact that the Nigerian military is engaged on several other fronts in the northeast does not mean we leave our eastern border at the mercy of Cameroonian forces who do not understand Nigeria

We are playing big brother. In 2013 President Jonathan's request to have the NAF strike the Boko Haram camps in Cameroon they often use as a staging base to launch attacks was denied by Yaounde. In 2014 it was revealed that Cameroon paid $700,000 to Boko Haram insurgents

..In ransom payment without prio notification of the Nigerian government. In September again it was uncovered France paid $3 million to Boko Haram insurgents in ransom payment. This time around Cameroon released six Boko Haram commanders from their custody as part of the deal

They tried to hard it from the Nigerian government until the BBC reported on it. This does not include the countless attacks and harassment of Nigerians at Danare, Boki Local Government Area in Cross Rivers state. In one incident dozens of Cameroonian gendarmes stormed the

community demanding that the village head hand over some refugees to them. The leader turned down the request and the troops left promising they will be back. At 2:am about 200 Cameroonian gendarmes stormed the village, shooting sporadically in the air and sending panic stricken

....residents fleeing into the bush. A calculated offensive from the Cameroonian military who have shown outright defiance of Nigeria’s territorial sovereignty and despised the consequences of crossing the international boundary to carry out harassment of Nigerians.

They do this because they do not understand the psyche of Nigeria's strategic patience and erroneously mistake Nigeria's restraint as a sign of weakness, emboldening them to carry out more daring provocations. A very dangerous cocktail of misunderstanding and bravado.

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If we fail to put a stop to these incursions, given their geographical proximity dont be surprised if Ambazobian separatist and IPOB see where they have common interests and start working together..or worse, Ambazonian separatists trigger all out war between Nigeria and Cameroon

..either by carrying out false flag attacks or staging attacks against Cameroonian troops and fleeing to Nigeria, inducing Cameroonian forces to attack Nigerian communities seeking out the militants without fear of reprisals, triggering an unexpectedly vicious Nigerian response.