Nigeria May Lose Obudu Resort And 8 LGs To Cameroon

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SENATE Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, on
Wednesday, said Nigeria is at the verge of losing the
popular Obudu Resort and eight local government areas in
Criss Rivers State to Cameroon, if the ongoing boundary
adjustment by the United Nations (UN) sails through.
The senator, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, said
the boundary adjustment between Nigeria and Cameroon,
being coordinated by the UN, could amount to a great
disadvantage for the country.

The boundary adjustment is being undertaken in respect of
the 2002 judgment of the International Court of Justice,
which ceded the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to the
Cameroon.
Senator Ndoma-Egba said already, the people of the state
were gripped with tension, following the visit of the UN
boundary adjustment team led by Mr Isaac Baya of
Zimbabwe.

He said the team was in Nigeria and Cameroon to
implement the Green Tree Agreement, based on the ICJ
verdict.
“There are some boundary delineation exercise going on as
a result of the Green Tree Agreement, which was the
consequence of the judgment of the International Court of
Justice on what we call Bakassi.
“The agreement necessitated some boundary adjustments
and that exercise started somewhere from Lake Chad and it
supposed to go right down to the Atlantic Ocean in the
South, so the exercise is going on in a place called Danari,
in Boki Local Government in my constituency.

“The Anglo/German boundary of 1913 has been there and a
particular beacon stone, beacon 113, we heard, cannot be
found. The rest has been found and that is the one they are
trying to locate. The UN team is insisting on taking a
straight line. Now the communities believe that beacon is
somewhere furthering in the Cameroon.
“If they do a straight line as they want to do, then we will be
losing some communities to Cameroon, including the
famous Agbokim Water Falls.

I am in touch with the Cross
River State government and the community, we are looking
at it, so that I will bring a formal motion to the floor, you
know I came under Order 42 the last time just to give notice
about my intension to bring a motion,” he said.
He said he wanted to make a case for the UN team to just
accept the traditional boundaries that the two communities
agreed on and “let the sleeping dogs lie.”
“What is even more worrisome is that few days ago, the
team was there (Danari) with soldiers and we have been
wondering where these soldiers come from, without
informing the local and state governments,” he said.

The Senate Leader also ruled out the possibility of Nigeria
returning to a unicameral legislature, adding that a multi-
ethnic and multicultural country like Nigeria could only
practice bicameral legislative system. culled