Toba Suleiman
25 August 2008
Ado-Ekiti — A member of the National Assembly from Lagos State, Senator Olorunnibe Mamora, has condemned the process of ceding the Bakassi Pennisula to Republic of Camoroon, declaring that the entire process would still be revisited.
Mamora, who represents Lagos West Senatorial District of Lagos State, said this at the weekend, in Are-Ekiti, Ekiti State, during the final burial ceremony of Pa Samuel Olowolafe, an Ekiti-born Lagos business tycoon.
According to him, it is true that Nigeria was part of the agreement that led to the final hand over, but the people were not allowed to determine their own fate, saying they have the right to self determination.
Mamora, who is also the Deputy Minority leader at the Senate described the handing over without allowing the people to determine their own fate as unfair.
He said the process to determine the Bakassi peoples' fate ought to have passed through the channel of referendum, adding that there is no way the matter would be allowed to die just like that, because the National Assembly has the mandate to reopen the matter under matters of national importance for robust debate.
He said "it is not yet uhuru, it is not over until it is over, because, we in the National Assembly are representatives of the people and we can still bring the matter up through a motion." He added that the way and manner the executive danced to the rhythm of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the handing over of the community to Bakkassi had marred the whole process, and created a gulf of disagreement between legislative and the executive arms of government.
He, therefore, frowned at the Federal Government for creating a lacuna for argument by circumventing all processes in order to satisfy some countries.
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You dishonest fools and corrupt dumbass... continue to satisfy the West but not defend the interest of your people. Who is the world, if your people are dying, hungry and being displaced? Japan lost 3 Islands to Russia since 1945 and till date Russia is till reluctant to hand over the land to back to Japan. Negotiation continues, and the President wouln't dare, because the Duma will not ratify such document. I wonder where your president, lawyers and so called leaders went to schools. Biggots, ICJ is recomendatory. Ever after the court verdict, did anyone considered negotiating with Cameroon for a joint developement of the place. I thought Nigeria is a Sovereign country? If your people have no say in their land, then shame on you! Nigerians, Kindly hand over the Niger Delta to the British or Americans.
M. Mamora's argument for not ceding Bakassi DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AT ALL. Would any sane person have expected the Nigerians living in akassi to have voted for ceding Bakassi to the Cameroons in any referendum? This shows the level of the peple in the National Assembly. The world is watching!
kaparah
what i the world mean to you?
SOO FAR AS THE PROCESS WA NOT FOLLOWED. NIGERIA HAD A RIGHT TO REFER THE CASE TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL. BUT DIDNT, BECAUSE, OBASANJO TOOK BRIBE MONEY FROMFRANCE, AND IF HE DIDNT DO AS HE WAS PAID TO DO, FRANCE WILL COME FOR HIS HEAD,
SOO, IF LAGOS STATE WAS SECCEDED TO BENIN, KAPARAH WILL QUICKLY HAND OVER SINCE KAPARAH DOESNT WANT HIS WORLD TO BE UPSET, WHO IN THAT TOUR WORLD DOESNT KNOW THAT EVERY COUNRTY HAVE ITE OWN LAWS, AND THOSE LAWS HAVE TO BE SPENT BEFORE ANY SUCH DEED SHOULD BE DONE?
GISHOLA. JUST AS ANY ONE WOULD THINK THAT LAGOS STATE CITIZENS
WILL VOTED TO GIVE AWAY THEIR LAND TO BENEIN REPUBLIC.
YOU SEE, ITS ALL ABOUT TRIBALISM. ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT OBASSANJO AND YARA U DUA ARE WRONG TO PUSH THE LAND OWNERS ASIDE AND HAND OVER THEIR ANCESTRAL LAND TO FOREIGNERS,
YARA DUA COULD HAVE REFERRED THE CASE TO THE UN SEC COUNCIL FOR A REFERANDM, FOR THE PEOPLE OF BAKASSI TO
DECIDE THEIR OWN FATE, THAT WAY THE WORLD WONT HOLD NIGERIA RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT HANDING OVER THE LAND.
YET YARA DUA, OBABSSANJO ALL NOTHERNERS AND YORUBA NOT FROM THIS AREA, ARE GUILTY TILL THE END OF HISTORY FOR A CRIME AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF BAKASSI
I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT YORUBA PEOPLE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH BAKASI BEEN HANDED OVER TO CAMEROON. THE ONLY PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR IT WAS THAT STUPID, FOOLISH, BASTARD MAN CALLED, OLUSHEGUN OBASANJO AND COMPLETED BY THIS COWARD MAN CALLED YARA DUA. DO NOT FORGET ALSO THAT "LAKE CHAD" AREA MUST BE GIVING TO CAMEROON TOO. I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE DO NOT HAVE GOOD LEADERS IN NIGERIA. I HAVE A LOT SAY THAT CANNOT NOW ABOUT THE SITUATION. THE CIVILIANS OF NIGERIA MUST RISE UP AGAINST THESE CORRUPTED AND BLINDED RULERS!!!!!!!!! THEY CAN NEVER MOVE NIGERIA FORWARD AND HAVE ANY PROGRESS.
I have always held educated Nigerians as responsible intellectuals on the African continent but i'm being proven wrong by some of these Nigerian National Assembly house members. No wonder the country was rocked by frequent military take-overs in the past, probably due to the imbecility of some members from their National Assembly. Were the constituencies that elected these types of House members being lured with money or what kind of reasonable and responsible messages actually came out of the mouths of these irresponsible candidate-members to convince the electorates?
Cying over split milk is not going to bring Bakassi back. Please stop embarrasing us in the eye of the world. Where was Congress over the past 4 years when this issue began? A "See-nothing, hear-nothing and say-nothing" Congress finally woke up after the issue is resolved, done deal and gone, to raise another probe. What are the courts for? Don't you have work to do to support your "Servant-Leader" 7-point agenda towards the "Vision 20/20" thing, whatever that thing is. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is King. I wonder who that "one-eyed" is?