No fewer than five suspected Bakassi Strike Force militants who allegedly hijacked a rice cargo boat and passengers at Parrot Island, Bakassi L.G.A. in Cross River lost their lives on Wednesday.

According to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the suspects were reportedly killed after they engaged troops of Operation Delta Safe when they tried to rescue the abducted passengers.

Below are some of the remains of the militants:

This is coming few days after notorious leader of the Bakassi Strike Force, who goes by the name Benjamin, gave the Nigerian government conditions before the group would stop their activities in their stronghold.

Benjamin had on Monday, October 17, 2016, said his group would continue to fight for the people of Bakassi until the Greentree Agreement is observed by all the parties involved.

The Greentree Agreement was the formal treaty which resolved the Cameroon-Nigeria border dispute concerning the Bakassi peninsula.

In the agreement reached on June 12, 2006, Olusegun Obasanjo, then Nigerian president as well as the Cameroonian President Paul Biya, signed for the withdrawal of troops and transfer of authority in the Peninsula.

But Benjamin, wanted by the Army in connection with alleged criminal activities as well as the killing of a soldier in September, thinks this agreement was not honoured.

He argued that Bakassi was ceded to Cameroun without consideration to human rights provisions and what the people of the area want.