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nairaland.net • View topic - Nigeria Finally Cedes Bakassi To Cameroon Tomorrow

Nigeria Finally Cedes Bakassi To Cameroon Tomorrow

Nigeria Finally Cedes Bakassi To Cameroon Tomorrow

Postby Richard Akindele » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:15 pm

The Federal Government will tomorrow handover the severeignty of the oil rich Bakassi Peninsula formally to Cameroon amidst fierce opposition from indigenes of the local government area in Cross River State.

Effort by some prominent persons in the area to stop the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon met brick wall yesterday before an Abuja Federal High Court as Justice Mohammed Garba Umar refused to grant their oral application praying the court to issue an order maintaining the status quo.

The judge held in his ruling that the issue of maintaining status quo is a very serious one which ought not to be made orally. "I therefore refuse to grant the application for the second time," Justice Garba ruled.

Two time former chairman of the Bakassi local government, Chief Emmanuel Etene and nine others had filed the suit in which they asked the court to stop the cession of the remaining parts of the area to Cameroon.

They also sought the court order compelling the federal government to pay the sum of N456 billion as compensation for ceding their land to Cameroon, just as they demanded N356 billion as compensation from the government for giving out their "asncestral homes, land and source of livelihood to Cameroon in an unconstitutional manner.

For undermining their rights to dignity, to acquire and own immovable property as well as rights to self determination, the indigenes of Bakassi urged the court to order the government to pay the sum of N100 million to them.

They further prayed the court to restrain the federal government from relocating the administrative headquarters of Bakassi from Abana, where it is located to any other place.

In a bid to spread their tentacles over the concerted effort to stop the ceding, the Bakassi indigines have also asked the federal government to maintain the status quo by halting the cession pending the determinatoni of the suit before the court.

This is continaed in a letter by counsel to indigines of the area, Kayode Fasetire, to Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakoa.

In the said letter, Fasetire informed the AGF that leave for the plaintiffs in the case to enforce their fundamental human rights.

The letter stated: "The final handing over of the severeignty of the norhern part of Bakassi local government area will take place in line with the terms of the 'green tree agreement' between Nigeria and Cameroon.

"Accordingly, we enjoin you in the spirit of the rule of law as proferred by this administration to refrain from doing anything which will affect the rest i.e the people and territory of Bakassi on the date referred to above and or any other date pending hearing and resolution of this case."

At the instance of the world court ruling in 2002, Nigeria had on June 13, 2006 agreed to handover Bakassi to Cameroon. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had chickened into the ceding agreement in a meeting convened by the United Nations to settle the protracted controversy.

The ceding deal was hatched and perfected by Obasanjo and the former President of Cameroon, Paul Biya. Obasanjo was reported to have said "our agreement today is a great achievement in conflict prevention, which practically reflects its cost effectiveness when compared to the alternative of conflict resolution."

The United Nations special envoy for Bakassi Peninsula, Ahmadou Ould Abdullah, had also assured that he was convinced that Nigeria would respect the agreement, especially, with the presence of the UN secretary general and witnessses from Germany, France, Britain and the United States who are set to guarantee the reaching of the agreement.

But the indigenes of Bakassi opposed the ceding as most of them vowed to die rather than come under the sovereignty of Cameroon.

Bounded by the Gulf of Guinea, Bakassi is said to contain about 10 per cent of oil and gas reserves in the world.

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Postby lexdino » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:13 am

what a loss :cry: , one among the uncountable deeds perpetrated by the previous regime :x , God save us :roll:
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