This is a welcome move since Nigeria abrogated its responsibility to defend Bakassi citizens who are Nigerians. If Southern Camaroon could join forces with the Bakassi Peninsula to form a New Nation, I, personally would support their aspirations for nationhood. Nigeria, as a government has erred, for not supporting a re-evaluation of the ICJ decisions. It was wrong for President Jonathan to be dictated to by Chief Obasanjo whose main interest in the region is purely economic -----the Oil Blocks, along with Mr. Kofi Annan's vested economic interests as well. When the Bakassi people and most Nigerians at large reminisce about what Gen. Abacha would've done had he been alive, the central theme that seems to figure prominently is that Abacha would never have ceded any inch of Nigeria's land to anyone, and would've been prepared to go to war, if necessary. Unfortunately, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Mr. Kofi Annan concluded that their economic interests superceded the collective concerns of Nigerian citizens living in their ancestral homes, which had been in existence prior to the European incursions on the African landscape. The Efik Kingdoms had been in existence even while Europeans lived in caves in pre-historic times. Even prior to Mrs. Luggard coined the term Nigeria (being a name derived from the Niger River, and the tributories which the Europeans had difficulty penetrating, and out of sheer despiration decided to add the suffix {area} to the word Niger to create the nex lexicon called "Nigeria", the Efik peoples had been living here since the millannia. What both Gen. Obasanjo and Gen. Gowon did was wrong. Frankly, we Nigerians of the Niger Delta could careless about what the UN Security Council would've thought of since self-determination and the preservation of Fundamental Human Rights was one of the major tenets of the UN Resolutions. Furthermore, it was wrong for the Nigerian Supreme Court to quote the ICJ decisions in their case deliberations as being pprecedent setting. The truth is that the Nigerian National Assembly has NEVER ratified the Green Tea Agreement, and until then, the highest court in our nation cannot, and must not defer its rulings or decisions on the basis of a flawed ICJ decision. If the ICJ decisions were to be considered binding, even though the nations legislative body had not ratified and sanctioned such, then, it would mean that American military and citizens whose activiities around the world were found wanting, must then acquiesce to the demands by interpol for summary arrests. However, the US Supreme Court has taken a different view on these matters and have refused to obey decisions carried out by the ICJ, and therefore, all such decisions against American citizens were deemed non-binding. So, and I ask: Which Security Council decision would force and supercede the decisions of a "Sovereign State" like Nigeria? The State of Israel has never cared about UN Security Council decisions, and have refused to be so bound by whatever decisions are carried out by the ICJ. Israel is no more than 8-million people, compared to Nigeria's 160-million. Therefore, if South Cameroon and the Bakassi people should decide to seek self determination to strive for their sovereignty and independence, I would personally support their aspirations. The East Timorese did this under the watch of Mr. Kofi Annan while he was the UN Secretary-General, and this should not be any different.

If wishes were horses, we would ride high.

Let the custodians of the former Efik Kingdom keep on dreaming. A cross-section of English-speaking Cameroonians will not adhere to the concept of an independent state for the NW and SW Regions with the Efiks and Ibiobios of Akwa Ebom and Cross River States.

Both entities are worlds apart in terms of common ground. Whilst cross-border co-operation between those ethnic groups that speak the same home language is desirable, it is not indispensable to the survival and well-being of Anglophone Cameroonians. The level of co-operation, collaboration and integration between a significant proportion of English-speaking Cameroonians and their Francophone brothers and sisters is such that breaking away from Francophone Cameroon is a non-starter. Supporters of the SCNC ( Anglophone Separatists) are few and far in-between. They represent the Cameroon of the mid-60s. I'm afraid time has not stood still. Integration with the Efiks and Ibibios withwhom older Cameroonians have some common ground could have been a distinct possibility during the Nigerian Civil War when the extent of dissent against the diktat of Yaoundé was high. That is no longer the case today. Stated otherwise, a marriage of convenience will not find favour with most Anglophone Cameroonians.

The people of Bakassi are Cameroonians in the same vein as others. We should not forget that by the time the Efik, Ibiobio and Ijaw fishermen migrated to Bakassi, the Bakoles, Bakundus, Bakossi and Bakweris were already settled there. This invalidates the claim made by some dishonest Nigerian Historians that the Efiks were the first settlers in Bakassi.

The Bakassians have benefited from the mistakes the Francophones made after the Reunification of Cameroon west of the Mungo River and the Bamboutos Highlands where the issue of an inherent official language barrier was swept under the carpet. A significant proportion of the civil and military authorities in Ndian Division especially in Bakassi are Anglophones. We should learn to live with our neighbours in peace and not resort to complaining like cry babies.

Well, what should we expect? Nigeria's military apparently is financed by the United Nations. That is one of the greatest indicators of the fact that Nigeria has lost a huge chunk of its sovereignty. Obasanjo signed the deal to give away the Bakassi to Cameroon on UN orders, and on the Mali issue, Jonathan is waiting for the UN to approve intervention. Come to think of it, the United States is in the same position. Secretary of Defense (Defence) Leon Panetta had said that the he and President Obama take their orders from the United Nations on foreign policy matters. The war in Libya only occurred on UN approval, so this is a world wide phenomenon. For Nigeria, a new and patriotic leadership needs to emerge, something reminiscent to what we saw in the 1970's but as a republic and from the younger generation. We should know now that the people running this nation are not patriotic, they are globalists and this includes Obasanjo, Babangida, Abubakar (Atiku) and Jonathan. With Obasanjo, he was once a real patriot in the 1970's. I am not sure what caused his turn to globalism. We must stop bowing to them and depending on them for everything. There are a group of senators in the National Assembly who say they will fight back on the Bakassi issue and some in the civil society want to do the same. Let us hope that this is not fluff and they will encourage others to rally to the aid of their countrymen. If this doesn't happen, then the first step of attaining better and patriotic leadership is thrown out of the window and this may be the beginning of the end of Nigeria as we know it. The society would have proven uninterested and immoral despite its claim to be God-fearing and will collapse into a very dark and painful period of decadence where no one has any chance to benefit from. This decadence will go far beyond what is being experienced currently with Boko Haram or kidnappings.

The last time I read about human right, there was no court of arbitration the approves the eviction of people from their ancestral land. What about people's right to secede form unholy wedlock? I mean seceding from the 2 rogue nations of Nigeria and Cameroun. If Luxemburg has the right to be a sovereign nation, so as Swaziland inside South-Africa and Gambia in the heart of Senegal, why not Bakassi, in the Bite-of-Biafra, between Nigeria and Cameroun? The population and area occupied by the Efiks and Ibibios are far larger than most countries around the world.

It's a deliberate infliction of injury to subject the people of Bakassi to the ICJ ruling which is based on demarcations and treaties made among European invaders who didn't care about the lives and welfare of black people. Moreover the judges are same Europeans, the owners of multinational corporations whose interest in Africa influences the decision of the court. Since Elf and other Oil companies own by the Capitalist-West have unhidden interest in the region, never will the Black people there find justice in the ICJ.

Bakassi people must not wait for other parts of Cameroun or Nigeria before declaring their Independence because Cameroun is not a nation to merge with. All French speaking countries in Africa are statically backward due to dehumanization they suffer from colonial brutality. See documentary in Youtube "White King, Red Rubber, Black Death", how King Leopold II of Belgium dealt with the Congo, resulting to the ongoing unquenchable civil war in RD-Congo