Re: Ambazonia Republic: CPC Backs Bakassi October 19, 2012 Breaking News, Reports

by crossriverwatch admin

The representative of the Cross River South Senatorial District,
Senator Bassey Ewa Henshaw has said that the people of Bakassi have
lost confidence in the Attorney General of the Federation to look
after and protect their interest.

Senator Henshaw whose senatorial district includes the disputed
Bakassi Peninsula made this declaration today at a one day national
dialogue on Bakassi at the Lagos Airport Hotel.

"let me inform us that the effort to resettle Bakassi people has been
a complete failure. You don't go and build a hundred houses and
pretend that you can use that to settle tens of thousands of displaced
people. And up till today, our government has not one day sent people
to Bakassi to see wht is happening to Nigerian. The Attorney General
disregarded the President's directive to file an appeal for the review
of the ICJ judgment with impunity saying there was no time and that
should Nigeria appealed, it will damage the international image of the
country. The Attorney General needs to explain to Nigerians how
compliance with the rule of law will be tantamount to reneging on our
international obligations and commitments. But the question is; does
compliance with the rule of law detract from the image of the person
complying"?

"The government also said they were no new facts to take to the Hague.
But the Bakassi Support Group had proven that all the talk about lace
of information by the government is not true. We supported this
position with fresh facts that were communicated to government yet the
Attorney General against the directive of the President, decided to
shelve the appeal for a review. By this action, the Bakassi people
have lost confidence in the Attorney General to look after and protect
their interest".

Chairman of the dialogue Prof. Bola Akinterinwa who stood in for Prof.
Ben Nwabueze said : "the subject matter is not the ceding but the fate
of the people of Bakassi. Their right to live where they want to live.
The ICJ, GTA on paper says that Cameroon has sovereignty over Bakassi.
Meaning the Cameroonian government has authority over the people and
territory. But the first issue arising from this is that the Bakassi
people are saying, irrespective of the ICJ ruling, our grandfathers
owned this land. We are Nigerians and we want to remain Nigerians. The
ICJ says the territory is ceded, not the people".

Convener of the dialogue and leader of the National Consensus Group,
Mr. Wale Okuniyi in his remark said:
"The Bakassi matter is no longer for Bakassi people alone. We have to
nationalize the struggle. We have come to a point were it is the
people themselves that must lead the discussion on Bakassi. Government
has been talking to us for too long about what they want to do for us.
Now we must begin to set the agenda with particular reference to
Bakassi. Today it is Bakassi, tomorrow, it might be somewhere else".

In her intervention, Hon. Nkoyo Toyo representing Odukpani Federal
Constituency pointed out that "the Attorney General's views on this
matter are tainted. He can step aside and allow another person to take
over"

Hon. Nkoyo who is also Nigeria's former Ambassador to Ethiopia
reminded the audience that beyond the question of the ceding, they are
also issues of compensation for the Bakassi people for the over one
hundred years of exploitation. she insisted that the people of Bakassi
must be paid compensation for all the injustices that have been meted
out to them.

She said, "with brazen impunity even in the face of the raging
controversy, the federal government ordered the boundary commission to
begin the re-delineation of the Nigeria – Cameroonian maritime
boundary. She said until Nigeria sits and listen to the affected
people, the boundary commission cannot go ahead with the demarcation
of the maritime boundary. Until the constitutional issues surrounding
Bakassi are addressed, the government should not go ahead with the
demarcation of the maritime boundary. Why has the Green Tree Agreement
failed? We need to talk to the resident to know how thy want to be
resettled".

Leader of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima
called on the federal government to recognize the right of the people
of Bakassi to self determination. He queried why government will want
to continue to hold a people down when that same government has sold
the people out.

Col. Tony Inyam who was at the occasion also called on the other
ethnic nationalities to join hands with the people of Bakassi and
Cross River State to redress the ceding.

The event was well attended by the media, civil society and
self-determination activists, leaders of ethnic nationalities and
opinion leaders from across the country including Mr. Debo Adeniran,
Comrade Joseph Eva, High Chief Minika James, Baba Omojola, Bar.
Malachy Ugwumadu, Comrade Mrs. Fatimah Abdulkareem amongst others.

On 11/2/12, Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bakassi People Have Lost Confidence in The AGF – Sen. Ewa Henshaw
> November 1, 2012 Breaking News, Reports No comments
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> http://crossriverwatch.com/2012/11/bakassi-people-have-lost-confidence-in-the-agf-sen-ewa-henshaw/
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> On 11/2/12, Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://crossriverwatch.com/2012/11/bakassi-biya-sends-emissaries-to-jonathan-offers-olive-branch/
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>> Bakassi: Biya Sends Emissaries to Jonathan, Offers Olive Branch
>> November 2, 2012 Breaking News, Reports No comments
>> paul biya
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>> by crossriverwatch admin
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>> 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
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>>> http://crossriverwatch.com/2012/10/ambazonia-republic-cpc-backs-bakassi/
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>>> by crossriverwatch admin
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>>> 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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