Nigeria: Military Wouldn't Have Ceded Bakassi to Cameroon - Ikimi
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Leadership (Abuja)
28 August 2008
Posted to the web 28 August 2008
Osa Okhomina
Yenagoa
Former External Affairs Minister, under the military administration of Late General Sanni Abacha, Chief Tom Ikimi, on Tuesday faulted the various explanations offered by the present administration of President Musa Y'Adua as reasons for the recent handing over of the disputed Bakassi Pennisula to Cameroon, saying that such issues would have been handled differently under a military regime.
Ikimi, however, noted that the world should discountenance the excuses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government and focus on calling for a high powered probe to fish out those who benefited from the political trade off of the hand over through oil wells of Sao Tome and Principe.
Chief Tom Ikimi,who made this known on Tuesday at the opening of the Zonal meeting of the Action Congress (AC) in the South-South geo-political zone, said in his three years of service as the External Affairs Minister, the issue of ceding Bakassi to Cameroon was never an issue for discussion with members of the Committee of Nations and Government of Cameroon.
He said the action of the Yar'Adua's administration only showed the disdain of the PDP led government to the region called the South-South,' the Federal Government have succeeded in ceding Bakassi, the Oil rich local government area of cross Rivers State, indisputably, Nigerian Oil to Cameroon. This development, as you know, directly affects our South-South zone and it means that our territory has been given away against our collective wishes and desire."
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"We call for a high powered probe to ascertain those who benefited from the Oil wells of Sao Tome and Principe in this dastardly political trade off. While there is known precedence worldwide, where any nation has ceded any part of its own territory. I recall my personal role between 1995 and 1998, when I led Nigeria 's negotiations with Cameroon over Bakassi and our meetings at various locations in the world. It was clear to both Cameroon and the international community that the issue of ceding Bakassi was never on the card."
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My dear Ikimi, please dont annoy me. If you do, your families and relatives will pay for this. Just shut up and sit down. where was You when the bakassi was given over. All you stupid we have there who will not act at the right time. Now you comes up with medecines after death.
Anyway, i like you. because your consince is georging you now, and you are trying to confess your shares in the profit of it. if this is lie, then prove yourself by acting quick.
My mother is from Nigeria and is from there given to… [Read Full Text]
Chief Ikimi the day dreamer !!!!
It's funny to see and hear these very statements coming out of your own very mouth. You are just trying to belittle yourself in the eyes of Nigerians. You who was foreign minister and the very you could not persuade Abacha not to kill Ken Saro wiwa comes now to cry over split milk. You are just trying to apeace the people because of the blood of that illustrous son of Nigeria in your hands.
What would have the military done? Fight Cameroon, yes as if in a war people… [Read Full Text]
I AM SURPRISED AT MR IKIMI'S COMMENT THAT:"the military could not have ceded bakassi to Cameroon" WHILE IT WAS THE SAME MILITARY GOVT.OF GEN. OBASANJO AND AWOLOWO THAT SIGNED TO CEDE BAKASSI TO CAMEROON AS A REWARD FOR HELPING THEM BLOCKADE BIAFRA DURING THE CIVIL WAR.HOWEVER,MAYBE HE JOINED THE MILITARY GOVT LATER,NOT DURING THE CIVIL WAR.THE SENATE SHOULD KNOW THIS FACT EVEN THOUGH OBASANGO WHO HURRIED TO LEGALIZE THIS IN THE INTERNATIONAL COURT WAS A SIGNATORY TO THIS AGREEMENT,AND FAILED TO DISCLOSE THIS TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WHEN HE ASSEMBLED LAWYERS OF HIS CHOICE TO GO TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT… [Read Full Text]
A military government has never been a government per se in the eyes of the international community. Ikimi, why don't you ask yourself why is there no military government in Nigeria as before? If you're disappointed with the civilian government, get yourself into the Nigerian military and overthrow the civilian government so that you can correct the wrongs of the civilian administration.
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Mr. Ikimi, 'selling after the market'. Where were you when the land was being ceded to Cameroon. My friend go and sit down, and please keep your mouth shut.