LAGOS — Fresh facts have emerged, showing that the disputed Bakassi
peninsula which the International Court of Justice, ICJ, ceded to
Cameroon, actually belongs to Nigeria.
Vanguard gathered that the jurists at ICJ might have been
misled by the legal teams of Cameroon and Nigeria, who did not show
vital information that clearly placed Bakassi as a territory within the
geographical, political and administrative jurisdiction and control of
Nigeria, contrary to the October 10, 2002, verdict which awarded the
sovereignty of the peninsula to Cameroon.
International relations experts, renowned historians, researchers and politicians told Vanguard in Lagos, last week, that contrary to the claims by the Cameroon and Nigerian legal teams that the first legal treaty on the Land and Maritime borders between Nigerian and Cameroon was the 1913 Anglo-German treaty, it was discovered that the limits of the Land and maritime boundaries between both countries went as far back as 1811 when the British made the treaty that went from the Lake Chad region down to the Atlantic ocean through the Rio Del Rey Estuary.
Vanguard gathered that the jurists at ICJ might have been
misled by the legal teams of Cameroon and Nigeria, who did not show
vital information that clearly placed Bakassi as a territory within the
geographical, political and administrative jurisdiction and control of
Nigeria, contrary to the October 10, 2002, verdict which awarded the
sovereignty of the peninsula to Cameroon.International relations experts, renowned historians, researchers and politicians told Vanguard in Lagos, last week, that contrary to the claims by the Cameroon and Nigerian legal teams that the first legal treaty on the Land and Maritime borders between Nigerian and Cameroon was the 1913 Anglo-German treaty, it was discovered that the limits of the Land and maritime boundaries between both countries went as far back as 1811 when the British made the treaty that went from the Lake Chad region down to the Atlantic ocean through the Rio Del Rey Estuary.
