Vanguard (Lagos)
29 November 2007
IRRESPECTIVE of the objection by the Senate to the manner the Obasanjo Administration ceded the Bakasi Peninsula to the Cameroon, Nigeria will not renege on the hand-over agreement with Yaounde, Chairman of the Nigeria-Cameroun Mixed Commission, Prince Bola Ajibola, declared yesterday.
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The decision of the government is a welcome relief to those who still love the country. The fact that the letter from the former President Obasanjo was read in the house by the then senate president who seems to now develop amnesia feining not to have seen this very important document shows ironically the level of hatred some highly-placed politicians have for the country. The government should not treat this serious problem lightly as the enemy within is thousand times more dangerous than an enemy outside the system. It may be necessary to generate a new legislation to overhaule the procedure for treating similar cases in the upper House to avoid a future recurrence of this incidence which, in the limit, was almost tending to push the country into an abyss.