http://crossriverwatch.com/2012/11/bakassi-biya-sends-emissaries-to-jonathan-offers-olive-branch/
Bakassi: Biya Sends Emissaries to Jonathan, Offers Olive Branch
November 2, 2012 Breaking News, Reports No comments
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by crossriverwatch admin
Cameroonian President, Paul Biya, on Thursday, sent a delegation to
President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, offering his cooperation towards
the amicable resolution of all areas of disagreement between his
country and Nigeria on Bakassi.
crossriverwatch gathered that the three-man delegation included the
country's Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmadu Ali; Cameroonian Ambassador to
Nigeria, Abbas Iya Ibrahima and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
African Cooperation, Jean Nguta.
The delegation told Jonathan that Biya was interested in working
hand-in-hand with him to resolve all issues on the common interests of
the two countries.
Biya, through the delegation, expressed his willingness to further
promote and strengthen relationship between the two countries and
requested for an audience with Jonathan as a way of encouraging
regular consultations and interactions between the two leaders.
The Cameroonian leader also sympathised with Jonathan on the recent
floods in parts of the country, recalling that Cameroon had similarly
suffered the same fate.
In his response, President Jonathan stressed the need for Nigerians
living in Cameroon and Cameroonians living in Nigeria to be treated
well, noting that the fundamental human rights of individuals must be
respected, irrespective of where they resided.
The two leaders are now expected to meet soon, following the long
running dispute over the Bakassi Peninsula ceded to Cameroon through a
judgement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
On 11/2/12, Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI
>
> http://crossriverwatch.com/2012/10/ambazonia-republic-cpc-backs-bakassi/
>
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> by crossriverwatch admin
>
> Congress for Progressive (CPC) has thrown its weight behind the quest
> for self-determination by the displaced people of Bakassi Peninsula
> whose territory is now under the sovereignty of the Republic of
> Cameroun.
>
> CPC stated this against the recent announcement that some border
> communities in Cross River State are working with the people of
> Bakassi and Southern Cameroun to create a new Republic of Ambazonia.
>
> Deputy National Secretary of CPC, Okoi Obono-Obla, in a statement
> obtained by crossriverwatch in Calabar on Thursday, said, "We
> resolutely and unequivocally stand by the hapless people of Bakassi
> who have been left high and dry by an ambivalent and incompetent
> Federal Government of Nigeria, and left to be wipe off the face by
> Cameroun to join their kins and kiths in the Southern Cameroun to form
> the Republic of Ambazonia.
>
> "The people of Bakassi have resolutely rejected the scandalous, unjust
> and obnoxious judgment of the International Court of Justice and the
> subsequent so-called Green Tree Agreement, signed by Nigeria in
> violation of Section 12 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal
> Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
>
> "The transfer of the sovereignty homelands of the Bakassi people to
> Cameroon based on a colonial treaty of British and German
> colonialists, known as the Anglo German Treaty of March 13, 1913,
> which was prepared in violation of the previous 1884 agreement between
> the Obong of Calabar and the United Kingdom and the 1885 Anglo-German
> Treaty is nullity.
>
> "The Anglo-German Treaty of 1913 was never conclusive and therefore
> cannot be used as legal premise to wish away the right of
> self-determination of the people of Bakassi.
>
> "The quest of the people of Bakassi to join their brothers and sisters
> in Southern Cameroun is legitimate because it is in exercise of their
> right to self determination conferred on by Article 20(1)(2) and (3)
> of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Enforcement and
> Ratification) Act 2004 and the United Nations Declaration on Humans
> Rights 1948 and Resolution 1514 (XV) of the Declaration and Granting
> of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, passed by the
> General Assembly of the United Nations of October 1960 without
> compulsion or interference.
>
> "It is pertinent to mention that the right to self determination is an
> imperative principle of modern International Law (Jus Cogens) and
> therefore be derogated from by Nigeria and Cameroun.
>
> "In this vein, Nigeria is obligated by International Law to promptly
> and immediately placed before the General Assembly of the United
> Nations and the International Court of Justice the quest/desire/demand
> of the people of Bakassi for their own nation or a union between them
> and the people of southern Cameroun to form the Republic of Ambazonia
> in view of their rejection the transfer of their ancestral homelands
> to the Republic of Cameroun".
>
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