Lawmaker urges FG to expedite demarcation of Nigeria/Cameroon Boundary

Member representing Mbo in the Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Samuel Ufuo has called on the federal government to expedite actions to demarcate Nigeria’s maritime boundary with the republic of Cameroon.

Ufuo claimed Cameroon has renamed Bakassi peninsula ceded to it as “Erong pennisula”, and has named the Mbo mangrove island belonging to Nigeria as Bakassi peninsula, in an attempt to claim the mangrove which is under Nigeria’s sovereignty.


Hon. Samuel Ufuo
Mbo, a riverine local government in Akwa Ibom State sharing maritime boundary with Cameroon has been enmeshed in boundary disputes which has left scores of people displaced from their native homes.



Ufuo at a press conference to mark his 44th birthday said there is urgent need for apparent distinction of Mbo mangrove island from Bakassi peninsula.




Samuel Ufuo celebrating his birthday
“It is only a clear demarcation of our boundary that will abet the deliberate misalignment of our maritime boundary and systemic annexation of Nigerian territories to Cameroon”.

He said a group of communities on the Mbo mangrove island decimated by continous ocean surge now existing as estuaries have been annexed by Cameroon.

The lawmaker stated that the estuaries which were hitherto part of the Mbo mangrove island are a departure from the Bakassi peninsula lying eastward of Rio Del Rey river.

“The international boundary places the Mbo mangrove island under the territory of Nigeria even though they seem to be tacitly annexed to Cameroon. Article 19 of the 1913 British-Anglo-German treaties clearly assert separate identities for the mangrove isalnd and Bakassi peninsula.

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The Nigerian flag is taken down from the Bakassi peninsula. AFP
“Cameroon did not include Nigerian Mbo mangrove island in their statement of claims to the ICJ, neither did the court grant it any right of sovereignty over the mangrove islands”, he stated.

Ufuo said he has developed online literatures accessible at www.discoveriesofcenturies.org, based on 1853 colonial map, the March 11, 1913 Anglo-German agreement and the ICJ ruling on the description of the boundary.

It would be recalled that when President Paul Biya visited President Muhammadu Buhari last year, both leaders had promised to work together to clearly demarcate the controversial maritime boundary.

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