BARELY three months left to end the final ceding of Bakassi, Cameroun
has started deploying troops in the peninsular.
But Bakassi youths in Nigeria have vowed to take back the peninsular.
Nigeria has till October, 2012 to reject the Green Tree Agreement
(GTA) or call for a review of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
judgement or permanently forfeit Bakassi.
Sources close to Cameroun told The Guardian that "the arms buildup in
the peninsular is informed by recent agitations from Nigerians
rejecting the ceding of the peninsular to Cameroun and the lower house
of the National Assembly declining to ratify the October 10, 2002 ICJ
judgement and the June, 2006 GTA.
"Our people in Cameroun are not taking chances and as you can see, the
government ofCameroun has ordered the intensification of security in
the Bakassi peninsular."
The Guardian learnt that the number of Cameroun soldiers in the
peninsular has increased and several gunboats have been mobilized
recently for any offensive from the Nigerian government or militant
groups.
Vexed by the loss of 76 oil wells and loss of their ancestral home
with ignominy, the people of Bakassi led by their Paramount Ruler Dr.
Etim Okon Edet rose in unison at the weekend calling on the United
Nations (UN) and the Federal Government to return them to their
homeland which was given out without a referendum.
At the press briefing which was attended by theBakassi Chairman Dr.
Bassey Ekpo Ekpo, councillors, traditional rulers and others at the
Council of Chiefs Chambers, Calabar, Edet said: "This is to inform all
Nigerians that the youths of the area are already restive and I as the
paramount ruler cannot stop them from resisting now what they consider
an unfair treatment by the ICJ, the UN and Nigeria which ignored the
human cost of their action.
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