Nigeria: Bakassi - Obong of Calabar to Send Delegation to UN Security Council

7 September 2012

The Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu V, and the entire Efik Kingdom in Cross River State have concluded arrangements to send a delegation to the United Nations Security Council to press for a review of the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which on October 10, 2002 ceded Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroun.

This last ditch effort by the distraught kingdom which owns Bakassi Peninsula is sequel to the Federal Government's foreclosure of any appeal against the judgment ahead of its deadline on October 10, 2012, and its lack of plan to either develop the Dayspring Resettlement Camp or pay compensation for the loss of the peninsula.

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