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Dayokanu and Co should find a real role model in Soyinka. Ever since, i read one of his internationally acclaimed "Wailing Wall" where he uses religion to symbolize politics. The Nigerian government is represented by a vulture, always hovering around the carcass that is Nigeria. He earned my admiration.

Good start but need the case to go international

Welcomed development. Now arrest him for murder.

onila: I like seeing Naija girls dat r into politics

are u from calabar?

Naija not really but raised.
Politics is a passion alongside law. studied both.(well not yet finished with law)
Have calabar roots and ur self?

onila: yr a lady

No homo yh..

Dey should just drop french and adopt English as an international language.

onila: FUC/K CAMEROON!!!!

Damn right.

[quote author=Dr.Gboy]Thnk God those gruesome killers hv been caught, but wait a minute,what abt d chief,hope there won't be prefential treatment ooo. [/quote]The chief was not in dat picture. Dat guy must not walk.

I can't find the 4 by 4 wood man in dat picture. He will need a special treatment for dat madness. Other prime suspects from pics i have seen are also missing. NPF Chiefs should make us proud, becos they have recently started solving murder cases and catching perpetrators, don't stop now.


As for the on lookers they should be charged as murder accomplice. Anybody throwing stone and abuses should be charge for murder First Degree, Second Degree or Third Degree.

Meanwhile, despite the handover of the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, the senate will not amend the constitution to delist the territory from the Nigerian constitution, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy president of the senate has said.

Expressing hope that the territory could be retrieved from Cameroon, in an interview said the senate would sample the opinion of Nigerians on issues pertaining to constitution review through millions of free text messages to be sent out to phone users.

Ekweremadu who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review when asked on the possibility of the Senate amending the constitution to reflect the new boundary between Nigeria and Cameroon said:

[b]"The Bakassi thing, is if you like what you say in journalism, is a developing story. So, I don't think it is concluded. We have had just one aspect of it which is the ICJ judgment which we were unable to review because of time frame and of course as the Attorney-General of the Federation said we did not have new issues to canvass.

"But there are still other options available to Nigeria including but not limited to the issue of plebiscite or referendum if you like, for those people to determine where they would want to stay. And of course, you are also aware of the human rights violations that are happening in the peninsula right now which Nigeria is entitled to petition and get Cameroon to answer for those human rights violations. So, these are some of the things that are still outstanding. It is also likely that one day that peninsula will still become part of Nigeria. So to excise it at this time will be hasty and I am aware that the money due to that local government is sent to Cross River joint account every month."
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Ekweremadu said the senate would involve millions of Nigerians on the issues before it for amendment in the constitution through millions of free text messages to be sent out to mobile phone users. The responses to the text messages, he said would be free.

"We are hopeful that every other Nigerian will be engaged through the electronic media, through the communication system SMS most likely so that every Nigerian will get a message on the issues in form of questionnaire and it is going to be a two-way traffic, we would have paid for that SMS so that you are not losing any money by answering those questions.

"So, we want to get every Nigerian, both those within and outside Nigeria to be involved as we are setting up a website where Nigerians will also have the opportunity of bearing their minds on most of these issues.

"So, on the whole, we believe in the principle of inclusivity in ensuring that every Nigerian will have the opportunity of being part of this process. So, by that means, every Nigerian will be part of the process."http://allafrica.com/stories/201210160859.html

lollz do not derail my thread. Dunno y all the jokers end up on bliss's corner.

jidestar: @ bliss let the Bakassi story rest. The Bakassi can look after demselves. Not surprise about the abuse thou. Dat Cameroonpig was ranting about buying effik slaves and using them for their farms. Suggestive of mistreatment to come.

https://www.nairaland.com/1070977/lets-celebrate-inteligencia-gej...bakassi-back/2

It's just unfortunate

ocelot2006: Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Hague throw out your case?

Don't know about dat but their are channels to seek redress. All should apply to Biafra. Those who have committed war crimes must be brought to justice. The Jews are still seeking out and punishing nazis for events pre dating 1945. Biafra is no different.

Dey should send dis cases to Hague. War criminals are ranting. Dey should go tell their part of the story to the courts, dat is the level right now.

I don't know about anybody here, but i did prefer igbo only country. It is not like Igbos lack nything.

UncleJJ: ILLUMINATI

Dat is wat some call dem...Others call dem the cabal. I prefer cabal.

heyma:

32. heyma: Quote Post
[quote author=Bliss4Lyfe]Get a life... Cameroonian goat.

Pig, who's camerounian or who's a goat,...+
Your consistent hype of camerounian issues is suspecious.
Go back to buea or yaounde and get your own life.

See pointless post by a Cameroonian goat on a very educative thread for Nigeria friends of Bakassi.

@Heyma
Get a life i say and this is my last response to u, so frame it and put it up on ur wall. u had ur 1minute of fame, u bloody attention seeker.

• PRONACO offers legal aid to indigenes

SMARTING from a sense of betrayal by the Federal Government, the people of Bakassi may take their destiny in their own hands by seeking self-determination, according to lawmakers from the area.

The Bakassi Peninsula has been ceded to Cameroun following the International Court of Justice ruling in 2002.

Already, the Pro-National Conference Organisation (PRONACO) has said it will deploy a legal team and other experts to support the Bakassi people.

Besides, the Deputy Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Cross River State, Mr. Cletus Ogban, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office for failing to defend the country’s interest in Bakassi.

Two lawmakers under the auspices of the Bakassi Support Group, Senator Ewa Henshaw and representative Nkoyo Toyo at the weekend told reporters at the National Assembly that the Nigerian authorities failed to consider the security implications of ceding the peninsula to Cameroun.

“What is happening in Bakassi may turn out to be four times that of Biafra. Our interaction with the people of the peninsula has revealed that they are talking of self- determination.

“Though the people in the Bakassi Peninsula have been jettisoned by the Nigerian government, they have a right to seek self-determination as provided for in the Green Tree Agreement,” Henshaw said.

He condemned the Federal Government’s refusal to file for a review of the International Court of Justice ruling of 2002, which gave Cameroun right to the Bakassi Peninsula.

While Nigeria had the opportunity to appeal the ruling till October 10, the Federal Government said it had no fresh facts to appeal.

Henshaw particularly expressed disappointment in the manner the Federal Government handled the issue and wondered if Nigeria’s foreign policy was meant “to please foreign interests or safeguard its citizens’ rights.”

He said the passing of the October 10 window for the appeal for a review of the ICJ ruling raised a number of questions: “Were they (the Federal Government) supposed to prepare a brief? And if so, why not? Was it a case of undermining the directive of the President and the National Assembly as well as the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)?

“The President called a meeting in which certain directives were given. A committee was set up and was told to prepare a brief for the review of the ICJ ruling. Subsequently, the committee was not allowed to function. The Attorney-General and the Minister of Justice thought differently and said there was no evidence. They also said they could not get international lawyers. Long before now, we had prepared fresh evidence”, he said.

Nkoyo Toyo, a former ambassador, expressed dismay at the development and said she had been traumatised by the refusal of the Nigerian government to file for a review.

She said although the option to file for a review had been lost, the Bakassi people still had an option of self-determination under international law.

“The Green Tree Agreement still has a year to run and we have time to file. There are two Bakassis: One is in Nigeria and there is a Bakassi Peninsula, which is now in Cameroun through the ceding of the Bakassi. We have asked the Bakassi people and they are interested in self-determination under international law.

“The last one week was the most difficult for me. I don’t understand how government works. The AGF will have to transform his approach in line with the transformation agenda and the wishes of the people.”

“People have become displaced persons in their own land and they are living in camps. There have been gory pictures of abuses of Nigerians by the Camerounian authorities and no one has asked the people of Bakassi what is their condition. These are Nigerian citizens who our government swore to protect, “ she said.

She lamented that returnees from the peninsula still “hang in camps,” and that those who chose to stay in the Bakassi Pennisula “are treated as immigrants.”

The lawmaker added: “We the Efik are one people and we don’t like the fact that we are being divided into two nations.”

In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Olawale Okunniyi, PRONACO said given the plight of the people of Bakassi following the decision of the Federal Government not to appeal the 2002 ICJ ruling, the conference had come under intense pressure to undertake a strategic intervention on the side of the people of Bakassi.

According to PRONACO: “The caucus of the coalition has met, in the last one week, with several stakeholders and indigenes of Bakassi, including chiefs and leaders of the Bakassi people, who demonstrated overwhelming concern for a popular resolution of the matter, claiming they were not legally part of the 1961 plebiscite which resolved to cede Bakassi to Cameroun.”

The statement also disclosed that a team of lawyers has been mandated to approach both national and international courts on the matter and that a stakeholders and experts’ national colloquium on the burning issue of Bakassi has been slated for October 23 in Lagos to “mobilise a broad synergy on the best way to help the dislodged people of Bakassi.”

Ogban said: “It will be an understatement if I call for the resignation of the President of this country. Of course, if this country is honest, the National Assembly should unanimously stand by my position. That is the major reason why at several for a, I have told people that we as a nation, we have failed because the issue of leadership should not be reduced to sentiment.

“When you see an American citizen, he will be proud to say I am an American, but in Nigeria, it is not so. They will be telling you I am a Yoruba man, I am an Hausa man or Igbo man and all those sorts of things and these are the sentiments that have held us down that we can’t move the nation forward because the leadership quality is based on how much the leader has to offer the people.

“We have found the president wanting, begging to be leader, begging for everything which is not the quality of a leader and so, even as a South-South man, I want to say that we are disappointed as Cross Riverians in the President of this country because as a leader, he would have seen the damage the ceding of Bakassi would do to the people of the state and Nigeria,” he said.

Meanwhile, as anger over the Federal Government’s failure to appeal the ICJ verdict heightens, the people of Bakassi and Efik kingdom have resolved to team up with Southern Cameroun to form an independent nation.

On Tuesday, members of the Cross River State House of Assembly embarked on a peaceful march to the Governor’s Office to protest the decision of the Federal Government not to appeal the judgment as the option for a review expired on October 10, 2012.

Thousands of Bakassi natives assembled at the Cultural Centre ground, Calabar, from where they embarked on a street protest with black hand bands.

With what was on ground, they said, the only option open to them was to seek self-determination since the Federal Government had disappointed them.

They declared that the battle to reclaim their ancestral home had only begun, saying: “We will stop at nothing in getting our freedom since Nigeria does not want us.”

Placards reading ‘Return Bakassi to Nigeria’, ‘Shame on those who sold Bakassi’, ‘Donald Duke betrayed Bakassi’, ‘Our leaders, do not cede our heritage away to a foreign land’ and ‘Abacha, our hero’, among others, were freely displayed to drive home their message. http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101672:bakassi-may-begin-self-rule-struggle-soon&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

The North are now talkin of leaving Nigeria after the transfer of oil rich Bakassi to Cameroon, is dis a coincidence? The answer is No.

https://www.nairaland.com/1074411/north-should-pull-out-nigeria#12554296

quid: Bakassi was ceded to Cameroon long ago. It was just a transaction waiting to manifest.

THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST

Robert Clark is a paid stooge by the Cabal. There are others like him that have been running around giving every reason under the sun why Bakassi does not belong to Nigeria.

They don't want to pay back money dey collected for Bakassi sale and deals.

As for Adoke, Nigerians will not refund any money collected by OBJ for Bakassi. The political elite that made does deals should refund the money they collected.(They should pay for Bakassi, whatever money dey had collected)

They collect IMF for their personal pockets and Nigerians have to pay. They sell Bakassi to internationalist with generational dividends for themselves and Nigeria has to pay. Enough is Enough.

It's time to revisit the Biafran Genocide and perpetrators persecuted for crimes against humanity. Compensation a must. Hague Criminal court is appropriate.

quid: Bakassi people should thank Gen Gowon immensely for his wartime 'ingenuity'
That has led to the loss of this oil rich piece of land.

Face it people, Biafra is an albatross hanging on the neck of Nigeria for long.
The more you try to frustrate Biafra, the more Nigerias woes escalate exponentially

Once again, well done Gowon. (If only he would rise up and take responsibility for once)

The surprise is dat some Nigerians actually want to cede Bakassi people oil rich territory to Cameroon like Gowon. U will be surprised. Having to fight Cameroonians about Bakassi is one ting but to fight Nigerians too, is just bizarre.

The Cabals at work again. They are trying to corner the fortune of the people of Bakassi by all means necessary. Bakassi is the next River State in terms of Oil and the Cabals want it. They have planned for it for a very long time.

In my opinion,the Nigeria political elites(Boko Haram)tried to corner the oil in the South(Bakassi) via Cameroon. U see alot of talk of Nigeria and Cameroon jointly exploiting the Bakassi Oil. No talk of landed rights or people.(indigenes)

Bakassi was simply handed to Cameroon and legitimized via the ICJ. Gowon and OBJ were just puppets for the elites that operates in Nigeria and Cameroon and their international Allies. The same group in the Nigeria counter-coup and also persecuted the Biafra War. The same group dat killed Abacha.

The same group dat has ruled and ruined Nigeria via shady dealings with imperialist internationalist.(Neo-Colonialist)

[quote author=Dudu_Negro]Bliss, abeg bring us news lets know how those people are doing. I like your position on their history. Their land is native to them...skruw Nigeria and Cameroon.[/quote]Absolutely correct. Knee grow, i will have to agree wit u on dat. lol

heyma: Why are you worried about her/"him" don't you know there are camerounians on nairaland?

Get a life... Cameroonian goat.

slimming: That is the result of not appealing the judgement on bakassi

Exactly. Tanks to dis unserious GEJ administration

A very right ting to do. Nigeria is house to war criminals dat should be persecuted for crimes against humanity. Nigeria owes Biafra alot in compensation for human rights violation an genocide, so lets go there.

UncleJJ[b]this just goes to show how weak our presido is[/b]. And, how weak he has made nigeria look in the eyes of the world.

I expected jonathan being from the SS, look into this matter in details.

You can say dat again...

And even if bakassi ..did belong to cameroun we under moral obligation to reject whatsoever decision made by any court.Only time will tell, what they used on OBJ to sell us out.

Very true, but OBJ was looking for third-term project and nobel peace price.

And , simply state cameroun only has interest in bakassi and nt the occupants who own bakassi : wether or mt they r nigerians or frm tje camerouns. At the end of the day the country with the most might will keep the property.

Common sense is not common oh...

U.S takes whatever it wants by stating some moral reason and nobody raises a finger. This is Nigeria"s opportuinity to snatch some respect or fear whichever works at certain times.

The Cameroonians are now calling Nigeria giant of africa, just for population.

Bakassi belongs to Nigeria because Nigeria say"s so and that is final.

The Bakassi indigences should be granted dat referendum to do so asap.

Yes, he did speak the truth but certain people rather peddle falsehood. Oh well, only the truth will suffice in the long run.

Tufiakwa! The animals have performed again. RIP to the Dead. Lets see if Boko haram will claim responsibility for dis as usual.

mymadam: Seconded, madam. It is Bakassi today, it may be any other part of Nigeria tomorrow. Nigeria appears to be up for sale to the highest bidder... no thanks to our 'rulers'. An injury to one is an injury to all. God bless Nigeria.

Very True. Couldn't have put it better myself.

Again in the 1922-39 reports of the League of Nations, the international boundary between southern Cameroon and South Nigeria started from cape Bakassi on the Atlantic coast and moving inland the western bank of the Rio dey Rey River. With the territorial waters of the two countries finally defined and settled between the British and the Germans up to the three-mile limit since 1913, and demarcated on a colonial map which both Britain and Germany signed.

it was the discovery of oil in large quantities under the sea in the Bakassi region that aggravated the problem of maritime international boundaries. Cameroon then took advantage of Nigeria's preoccupation with the Civil War in the late sixties, to start drilling for off-shore oil, in a disputed area in the sea along the Nigerian border. However, the existing Nigerian border at the sea coast of Rio Del Rey was protected by the OAU Resolution of 1964, respecting the inviolability of inherited colonial boundaries.

In 1913, European powers were seeking shelter in a frenzy of alliance negotiations, as Germany bullied the other powers for concessions in their colonial possessions. Germany bullied France into surrendering substantial territory to German Cameroons as a settlement in the Moroccan Question of 1911 and 1912 when Germany tried to seize Morocco from France.

Britain, likewise was pressured to surrender Bakassi Peninsula to Germany, but never did, and never allowed the mutual border from Rio Del Rey to be moved to the Calabar/Cross River Estuary even in the March 11, 1913 Agreement.

Great Britain insisted in Article 21 of that Agreement, that the boundary from Thalweg of Akwa Yafe River, "shall lie wholly to the East of the navigable channels of the Cross and Calabar Rivers", that is, towards the Rio del Rey boundary. All the documents mentioned above, are a matter of public record, and can be found in the following publications:

1. Walter I. Ofonagoro, Trade and Imperialism in Southern Nigeria, 1885-1929. (New York, Nok Publishers, 1979)

2. J.C. Anene, Southern Nigeria in Transition, 1885-1906, (Cambridge, 1966)

3. International Boundaries of Nigeria (New York, The Humanities Press, 1970).

4. Clive Perry, LLD. The Consolidated Treaty Series, (New York: Oceana Publications, 1978)

5. The treaties are also published in Sir E. Hertslet, the Map of Africa by Treaty, Vol. III (London: Frank Cass and Co. 1967).

@Toaskarity: Cameroon have no legal claims to Bakassi.