Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan has
set up a committee to look at the option
of appealing the judgment of the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the
Bakassi peninsula.

The decision was reached at a meeting
between the President, the leadership of
the National Assembly and other
stakeholders at the State House in Abuja.

The meeting which started late
Wednesday night ended in the early
hours of Thursday.

Cross River’s governor, Liyel Imoke, told
State House correspondents after the
meeting that the committee would also
consider how to take care of the
displaced people of Bakassi.

Imoke who did not disclose the
composition of the committee said it
would work within a specified time.

Nigeria has an Oct. 9 deadline to appeal
the ICJ ruling which ceded the oil-rich
Bakassi peninsula to neighbouring
Cameroon was delivered on Oct. 10,
2002.

Imoke said Jonathan had shown great
leadership quality by convening the
meeting and standing firm on some of
the decisions taken.

Speaking also, the Senate President, Sen.
David Mark, said the executive arm of
government and the lawmakers were
now on the same page on the Bakassi
issue.

He said they would work together to
achieve results.
A former Attorney-General of the
Federation (AGF), Prince Bola Ajibola who
was at the meeting, said the federal
government had shown candid concern
on the Bakassi issue.

He commended the move by government
to follow dialogue, the rule of law and
diplomacy in ensuring that Nigeria gets
justice and the people were not wrongly
dealt with.

Ajibola expressed optimism that the
committee set up would handle the
matter accordingly and in good time.

The meeting was attended by Vice
President Namadi Sambo, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu
Tambuwal, and some other principal
officers of the National Assembly.
Also in attendance were Akwa Ibom
governor, Godswill Akpabio, the
Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, and
the Minister of Justice and AGF,
Mohammed Adoke.

Some leaders and representatives of
selected groups from Bakassi, as well as
presidential aides, were also in
attendance.

The Senate had last week unanimously
passed a resolution mandating the
federal government to appeal the ICJ
ruling because of the new facts which
had emerged over the matter.
The motion which gave rise to the
resolution was sponsored by Sen. Abdul
Ningi (PDP-Bauchi Central).

He had argued that it would be wrong
for Nigeria not to appeal the judgment
because there was still opportunity to do
so before the statutory expiration time.
(NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/jonathan-ready-to-contest-icj-judgment-on-bakassi/

I dey laugh

I think some lawyers are about to hit it in million dollars, big time!!..

Foolish reporting...you can't appeal an ICJ ruling, you can only ask for a review. Appealing an ICJ ruling is like appealing a Supreme court judgement.

There are basically three grounds to ask for a review...

1. There was a mistake in the judgement
2. There was fraud in the judgement
3. New information that were not previously available.

You can only appeal within a time frame of 10 yrs after the judgement....the judgment was passed in 2002...this year will make it 10 yrs after judgment. Where then is the time to ask for a case-review?

Team Reclaim Nigeria...