US soldier charged with financing armed conflict in NW, SW.

He is said to have been charged alongside another US citizen of Cameroonian descent, Mercy Akwi Ombaku.

Among other things, the duo is said to have conspired to offer financial and skilled military support to the Ambazonia Defense Forces, ADF, armed group. 

They are reported to have engaged in arrangements to provide money for the purchase of AK-47 rifles to separatist fighters in the two Regions and deleting messages of their plans.

Major Chungag is said to have appeared in court before being granted bail. It is reported that he connived with Ombakum, who is resident in Maryland, to transfer money to armed groups for the purchase of weapons.

The major, reports attributed to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI, indicate, got in contact with the ADF, sometime in 2020, while serving at the US military base. 

Then, he is said to have claimed to have had combat experience in Iraq, which could have been useful to the ADF.

Other reports hold that the Major ended his communication with the ADF in 2024 and deleted his communications. The move is said to have come after the FBI first grilled him in September 2024, following the arrest of Lucas Ayaba Cho in Norway. 

Yet, other accounts hold that the US military major had gone so deep into his engagements with the ADF and was given several high profile positions such as Commander of the ADF Special Forces Group. 

He is also said to have been given senior roles in the Ambazonia Governing Council, AGovC, that oversees ADF's armed wing.

Chungag, other reports hold, had commandeered several coordinated attacks in the two conflict-hit Regions; between 2020 and 2024. Some have accused him of having a hand in the abduction of Senator Regina Mundi and the Nancho Junction killings in Bamenda, in July 2023.

The ADF, an armed group headed by another separatist kingpin, Lucas Ayaba Cho, is linked to several atrocities in the crisis that will be 10 years by October this year.

Meanwhile, Ayaba Cho remains in pre-trail detention in Norway, as investigations continue over his activities with the ADF; not unconnected to the crisis.

The case of Major Chungag adds to that of dozens of other American citizens of Cameroonian origin, who have either been jailed or still standing trial for their role in stoking the embers of the crisis in the North West and South West Regions.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3773 of Monday April 27, 2026