President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday stated Nigeria would abide by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judgment on Bakassi Peninsula.

Speaking at a joint press briefing with President Paul Biya of Cameroon who is on two day state visit to Nigeria, Buhari said the issue of hydrocarbons in the Bakassi region was brought to the attention of the ICJ.

LEADERSHIP recalls that on October 10, 2002, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) sitting at The Hague entered a judgment in the case of the Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria.

The ICJ Judgment definitively delimited the frontier between Cameroon and Nigeria from Lake Chad to the sea.

In the Bakassi section, the Court decided that the boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria in Bakassi is delimited in accordance with the Anglo-German Agreement of March 11, 1913 and that the sovereignty over the peninsula lay with Cameroon.

President Buhari said Nigeria had accepted the judgment, but the technical aspect of the international waters had yet to be fully determined.

He said ‎”On this Bakassi Peninsula issue, I will like the government and people of Cameroun to keep their minds at peace, Nigeria we are internationally respectful and abiding nation, somehow there was a crisis between the two nations on Bakassi Peninsula over the hydro carbon exploitation, this issue has been dealt with by the International Court of Justice.

“There is a technical committee of experts, comprising Cameroun and Nigeria sides, until this committee report gets to us and when they submit the report, I expect that with a few of us that are still around, we shall sit together and see what is the best way for the two countries, so feel secured and be at peace.”

Buhari, however, said his administration was alive to its responsibilities and would remain focused in the fight against terror in the region and the continent.

On his part, Biya debunked allegation that his country was reluctant in joining forces with the Lake Chad Basin countries to fight Boko Haram describing it as an effort to malign his country.

He said, “I heard of this information before, I heard it in New York during conference, that Cameroon serves as base for Boko Haram, but what can Cameroon benefit from that?”

“Is it the ideology? Are we going to benefit from finances? No it was just a bad press. Cameroon remains focused and committed to the fight against Boko Haram.


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No pain no gain

Paul Biya please it is time to go and rest. You have over tried at least after deceiving Amdhou Ahidjo in 1983, i think it is time to allow DEMOCRACY to visit Cameroun my most cherished country.
The country where i grew into manhood.

As for Bakassi... Britain or no britain. I wonder how oyibo man go come for BLACK man country and divide families & cut off blood relations in the name boundries...

It is a pity

Hmmm ok

Nice

Better

KissCODE:
Paul Biya please it is time to go and rest. You have over tried at least after deceiving Amdhou Ahidjo in 1983, i think it is time to allow DEMOCRACY to visit Cameroun my most cherished country.
The country where i grew into manhood.

As for Bakassi... Britain or no britain. I wonder how oyibo man go come for BLACK man country and divide families & cut off blood relations in the name boundries...

It is a pity

Eleyii gidi gan ooo you be cousin to mama piss nii?

Lol@ 'where I grew manhood'

Biya if you like make Cameroun be safe haven for Boko haram it's to your own detriment. No country makes meaningful development where terrorism is prevalent.

Buhari has no choice.
The fear of France is the beginning of letting go Bakassi

Cursed be all who gave part of our land as a gift to another nation without giving any thoughts to the owners of such land. An oil rich land like Bakassi? Given to Cameroon for nothing? For what?

BlackTechnology:
Buhari has no choice.

The fear of France is the beginning of letting go Bakassi

All this kids on NL sef!

tayebest:


Eleyii gidi gan ooo you be cousin to mama piss nii?

mama ke? Lolzzz
Did she grow up in Cameroun?

Coward President...I thought ur zombie is saying you are all powerful and has d deadliest army in the world...why not fight back and get back Bakassi...u don't forget you are army general and a warlord? NO fall hand Mr President Buhari...u cant just reel out military tanks and warship for the Niger Delta people and their oil resource...face Bakassi and recover the land!

Why won't the dullard hand Bakassi over to Biya. After all, it's not daura that's under dispute.

Now isn't it now glaring that the European created Africa. An Anglo-German document signed in 1913 by Europeans now determines who members of African tribes live with or not. They go to yorubaland, disregard the homogenity of culture and language and with a long ruler and a stroke of the pen, some yorubas become Beninoise, others become nigerians, tearing brothers apart forever but the same yorubas are fighting tooth and nail to preserve the entity created by these europeans .

Do these people really ruminate on their actions and inactions? Pity!