The Bakassi controversy should be a reality check on our politics, it raises many questions on the issue of Nationality and our approach to define who we are. This should be a critical point of reference for any national conference to review and re-apportion land and its people.

Consider this:

1 Bakassi Peninsula is older than Nigeria and Cameroon

2. The division of the native people into separate political sovereingties is in line with colonial design and Eurocenticity

3. The ruling to ceede Bakassi to Cameroon was made by ICJ, which by charter of the UN is empowered to make such rulings. The material evidence for this ruling was an 1884 Anglo-German treaty.

4. Similar and all divisions of African land were carried out based on treaties coming out of the Berlin conference between European nations.

5. UN was also a formation representing the global interests of the Allied Forces, as they were known.

6. There were also treaties between the coastal African Chiefs and Kings and the Europeans. All the African treaties conveyed an infinituum term, however they were expired and subordinated by European treaties.

7. Nigeria is a product of an Eurocentric treaty, and so is Cameroon.

8. The citizenship of Nigeria is non-native.......in fact, it is contra-native and an inhibition to the harmony of people and their native land.

9. The people of Efik, Annang, Ibibio, Calabar generally and Bakassi are people of same nativity. Their destiny and harmony is disrupted when their land is separated into different sovereingties designed in Berlin.

10. Under their common native heritage they speak one language and observe same rituals of living. Under their new sovereingty or citizenship, Bakassi people must now speak a new European language different from one they spoke before.

11. In order to be a good citizen we must speak a lingua franca so we all understand one another. Conversely we speak and understand less of our native tongue. This invariably deadens our spirit and emotions to native environment. Net result is we are not gaining at the center and we are loosing locally.

12. How much longer before our politicians realize that all the fabric of our citizenship and our lingua franca are products of the Berlin conference? We are Nigerians, not because we desired to be so.....but because Berlin conference attendees signed a treaty that made us so.

13. This must be the first challenge tackled by SNC........a review of who we are as citizens of Nigeria and whether or not we should expire the Eurocentric treaty and formulate a new future oriented to an Afrocentric treaty.....or better yet, dissolve this foreign conglomerate and realign the people and their lands along their ethnic nationalities.

14. As Giant of Africa, we should lead the way so we can help other African nations derive directly from living in harmony with their environment and land.


I should stop here but I also want to close and say to those who are yet to know, that SINOPEC, a Chinese Oil company just few days ago declared that it has found oil in Bakassi..

Finally, people are starting to see dat tribal conflict was factored into the grand design of post colonial africa. So we can now stop the yoru-igbo e-wars and face the colonialist?

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musiwa7: nigeria should check this people who are not tell the truth and this people are not nigerian, but cameronian trying to claim nigeria citizen. Which they have done for many years , using it to gain scholarship to many nigeria universities.

So please you. Who are the bakossi people in Cameroon. Tell me why should I believe you over the Bakossi people, whose name is name after the place..

Efik people have no case.. Nigerian immigrated there . it is not like republic of benin.. This are yoruba..

hahahahah! Comedy... Which land mass on earth did people not migrate to?

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Musiwa,

Let's start with who is a Nigerian and who is a Cameroonian? As I said, these lands are older than either of the countries. So the cultures of their lands is also older. If Bakassi was an empty unpopulated land it would not have held any significant market value and thereby not a conflict of interest resolved by this 1884 Anglo-German treaty.. The fact these two countries each had an interest to own it suggested some remarkable value in that peninsula. It is interesting to note that it sits at the confluence point between West Atlantic currents and Central Atlantic currents, which should indicate prime fishing grounds.

Who were the people on this peninsula? You cannot simply say Nigerian or Cameroonian.....what were they before the 1884 treaty? Calling them Nigerian or Cameroonian is in the spirit of the Eurocentric design. What was their Afrocentric identity......thats where they belong.

If we are truthful about SNC Bakassi ought to be an eye opener. This was not our only tussle with Cameroon, we had territorial issues in Chad as well.

People of Chad were el-Kanemi people. Now we call some of them Nigerians and some of them Chadians. The ones in Nigeria speak english, the ones in Chad speak french. We say the el-Kanemi people in Nigeria are now brothers with people of Sokoto, Oyo, Asaba, Abia, Ogoja, Minna and Osogbo......we deny their brotherhood with their kin in Chad. When the Chadian come to live in Maiduguri or in Potiskum, we call him foreigner and tell him to go back to his country. Alas, he is in the capital of his kingdom.....his own land.

This is one of the political damages done to us by the Berlin conference.

musiwa7: it is different in the case of cameroon and nigeria. the people of bakassi in 1961 voted in a united nation referendum to leave Nigeria. they can not return back to nigeria through back door. they have to go back to the united nation and conduct a referendum again for them to return back into Nigeria. they have no case..

Bakassi was one of the places that left nigeria and join cameroon in 1961. they have no case.. they need to know their history.. go to school.

There were many evidences taken into account, the ruling was handed down in 2002 using the 1884 treaty as the yardstick of measure to delineate the colonial sovereingties. They had no interest in what the people said they were before colonialism or after independence.

The message.......you are the citizen of the land under treaty by the Europeans. What your Chiefs and Kings said prior, or what you declare after has no meaning in UN.