Senate Moves to Reclaim Bakassi
A major move aimed at a review of last year’s cession of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon by the Federal Government was broached in the Senate yesterday.
The Senate faulted the decision by the immediate past regime of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to cede the Peninsula to Cameroon without ratification by the National Assembly, saying the act was unconstitutional.
Obasanjo had ceded the Peninsula to Cameroon on August 14, 2006 following the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on October 10, 2002 and a June 12, 2006 agreement at Green Tree, New York, United States, where the former president agreed to surrender the Peninsula.
The Senate faulted the decision by the immediate past regime of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to cede the Peninsula to Cameroon without ratification by the National Assembly, saying the act was unconstitutional.
Obasanjo had ceded the Peninsula to Cameroon on August 14, 2006 following the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on October 10, 2002 and a June 12, 2006 agreement at Green Tree, New York, United States, where the former president agreed to surrender the Peninsula.
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