This Day (Lagos)
17 November 2008
Barely a week after the release of seven French hostages by hitherto unknown Bakassi Freedom Fighters, the country's Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Jean Michel Dumond, has described the decision by Nigeria to cede the Bakassi peninsular to Cameroun as " very wise" decision in view of the continual confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea over similar issues.
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problem is the french and their french cameroun comrades as well as nigeria doesnt own bakassi, it belongd to british southern cameroons. obassanjo shouldnt have handed a foreign land to a foreign thief. but to the rightful owners.
Its a little too late for that. This peace initiative by OBJ to avoid war by any means necessary should have show-cased for the rest of the world to emulate, particularly in Africa, Congo, for example - in fact, it deserves Nobel Price for Peace.