The Surveyor-General of the Federation, Professor Peter Nwilo, has said
Bakassi Peninsula does not belong to Nigeria but Cameroon.
Nwilo made the clarification when he featured as a guest on the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum, in Abuja, on Monday, saying that based on
available facts, the disputed territory actually belonged to Cameroon.
Nigeria lost the territory to Cameroon based on a judgment of
International Court of Justice in The Hague, in October 2002.
Nigeria ceded Bakassi to Cameroon on August 14, 2008, following the
Greentree Agreement and thus ended the dispute over the 1,000sq/km territory.
“I know that the available facts did not weigh in favour of
Nigeria...the facts they (Cameroon) had at their disposal did not favour
Nigeria and that was why we lost it (Bakassi).
“Though at times, we think it is in Nigeria, but the evidences didn’t
seem to favour us,” he said.
Nwilo said Nigeria had 10 years to bring up new facts to support its
claim and for the judgment to be reviewed, but it did not have any new
information
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