Natives of the ceded Bakassi Peninsular
are demanding $200bn from the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments as
damages for the alleged neglect and killings of their relatives.
They also sent an appeal to the United
Nations Security Council to take over the territory on trusteeship in
order to prepare it for self-determination.
In a 26-page document on Wednesday, the
people, under the aegis of Save Bakassi Global Movement, said the demand
would address the issues of marginalisation and oppression, among
things experienced by the people after the ceding of the peninsular.
Chief Eyo Eyo-Cobham signed the document addressed to the UN Security Council.
The group said, “We are demanding from
Nigeria and Cameroon governments $200bn as special and general damages
for the gruesome illegalities of criminal marginalisation, oppression,
suppression, discrimination and ethnic cleansing of the Bakassi people.
“Since the ceding of the peninsular in
August 2008, the natives, who came to Nigeria, have been homeless, while
those who remained in the ceded territory and accepted Cameroon
sovereignty have been faced with one form of human rights abuse or the
other.”
The group also called on the UN body to set aside the October 10, 2002 judgment, which ceded the peninsular to Cameroon.
The group said it relied on Chapter IV, Article 35 of the UN Charter to make the demand from the Security Council.
It added, “It was an act of deceit and
illegality for the government of Nigeria and Cameroon to have invoked
the invalid 1913 Anglo-German agreement, voided and nullified by the
1919 Treaty of Versailles in its act of the 1971 Yaoundé II and 1975
Maroua Agreement.”
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