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	Chippla's Weblog - Thoughts on Issues: Bakassi—A Future Uncertain
		The traditional ruler of Bakassi has appealed to the Nigerian government and people not to have the peninsula handed over to Cameroon, but for a referendum to be organized so that residents of Bakassi can decide where they want to belong.
		The people of Bakassi must transcend arbitrary borders and their fate ought not be determined by a court ruling made at the Hague but by a referendum.
		Posted by Chippla Vandu at June 23, 2006 3:50 PM Rumor has it that Bakassi has always been part of Nigeria, and that General Gowon offered the northern part of the Bakassi peninsula to the Cameroonians during the Nigerian civil war if they would assist the Nigerian army in some ways.
	chippla.blogspot.com /2006/06/bakassia-future-uncertain.html (1462 words)

	BAKASSI (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bakassi is the peninsular extension of the African territory of Calabar into the Atlantic Ocean.
		Bakassi is situated at the extreme eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea, where the warm east-flowing Guinea Current meets the cold north-flowing Benguela Current.
		The outcome of the controversy was a de facto Nigerian refusal to withdraw militarily from Bakassi and transfer sovereignty.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ba/Bakassi.htm (923 words)

	Bakassi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bakassi is the peninsular extension of the African nation of Cameroon into the Atlantic Ocean.
		Bakassi is situated at the extreme eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea, where the warm east-flowing Guinea Current (Efik: Aya Efiat) meets the cold north-flowing Benguela Current (Efik: Aya Ubenekang).
		Part of Bakassi is currently administered by Nigeria due to the 1994 aggression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bakassi (1437 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bakassi people are very angry at the contemplation of being excised from Nigeria to become part of Cameroun with whom, they say, that they share nothing in common.
		Bakassi is in the constitution, it still receives its allocation from the Federal Government until that (allocation) is stopped and until the constitution is amended, then we will know what action to take.
		Bassey who further alleged that Bakassi people have over time, been neglected by successive regimes, urged the people of Bakassi Peninsular to, as he put it, quickly transfer their nationality to Cameroun where, he argued, that their lot could be better.
	www.ngrguardiannews.com /weekend/article01/170904 (1768 words)

	Bakassi Countdown - The Nigerian Village Square
		The inhabitants of Bakassi Peninsula estimated to be about 150,000 in population may have to become citizens of Cameroun from September 15th, as the Cross River State Government which is presently exercising jurisdiction over the territory say they are not planning to relocate them.
		The paramount ruler of Bakassi, Etinyin Etim Okon Edet who reacted to the statement credited to Kwankwaso vowed that the people will rather remain there as Nigerian citizens or perish, if need be in the course of expressing their universally acknowledged rights to self determination.
		Bakassi is the latest deal that is seeing all the remaining goodness of this god-forsaken country sold to any foreigner who merely asks for it.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare.com /board/showthread.php?t=1526 (1116 words)

	The Bakassi Story
		The boundaries between British and French mandated Kamerun was defined by the Franco-British Declaration of July 10, 1919 by Viscount Milner, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Henry Simon, the French Minister for the Colonies.
		Bakassi Peninsula was in the "Southern Cameroons", distinct from the Eastern region and the Calabar province and maps from that period show this very clearly.
		Maps from that period show Bakassi peninsula in Cameroun, but the offshore boundary was unclear since there was no detailed demarkation of the "navigable portion" of the approach channel to the Calabar estuary.
	www.dawodu.com /bakassi2.htm (2309 words)

	Nigerian high court to rule on Bakassi suit - Xinhuanet
		In the suit, the plaintiffs contended that the proposed handingover of Bakassi without an act of the National Assembly amending some part of the constitution was a flagrant disregard to the provision of the 1999 constitution.
		Kolapo Adabale, counsel representing the plaintiffs, said Bakassi was part and parcel of the land area of Cross River state and handing it over to Cameroon would amount to adjustment of the boundary of the state.
		He told the court that Bakassi was one of the 774 local governments recognized by Section 3 (6) of the 1999 constitution, and that ceding Bakassi to Cameroon would amount to amending the provision of the constitution in that regard.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2004-11/30/content_2274974.htm (536 words)

	The Head Heeb: More Bakassi developments
		The Nigerian House of Representatives has called for a plebiscite on the future of the Bakassi Peninsula, a disputed territory which a 2002 ICJ ruling has granted to Cameroon but is populated mostly by Nigerians with political connections to Cross River state.
		While presenting the motion, [Bakassi representative Essien]Ayi said the constitution recognised Bakassi since it was one of the Local government Areas listed in it, contending that unless the constitution was amended, Bakassi could not be expunged from being part of the country.
		Bakassi is scheduled to be turned over to Cameroon sovereignty on September 15, but that target date may be out of reach.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/026050.html (376 words)

	Bakassi Peninsula: Recourse to the law to prevent conflict (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The resource-rich Bakassi peninsula, and the 1,600 kilometre-long border area between Cameroon and Nigeria extending from Lake Chad to the Gulf of Guinea, is not on most people’s horizons as a strategic piece of territory.
		Progress is being made towards the withdrawals and transfers of authority in the Land Boundary and the Bakassi peninsula.
		In the meantime, the parties have agreed to initiate a number of political and economic confidence-building measures, and to consider the adoption of a treaty of friendship and non-aggression between their countries.
	www.un.org /events/tenstories/story.asp?storyID=900 (513 words)

	The Legitimization of Murder and Torture
		We saw the Bakassi who had screened Chief Okonkwo twice, who were now back in Aba, including their local chief known as "Boss." They told us that they had refused to be party to his assassination and had refused to carry out the governor's instructions.
		The Bakassi Boys often intimidated and threatened other people who happened to be present at the time of arrest, for example by firing into the air, or by arbitrarily arresting and ill-treating onlookers and neighbors, as well as relatives of their main victims.
		The Bakassi Boys have actively fuelled the myth that they have magical ways of ascertaining guilt or innocence; a particular belief is that they hold a machete over the individual, and that if the blade turns red, it means that the individual is guilty.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2002/nigeria2/nigeria0502-03.htm (13356 words)

	The Head Heeb: Return of the Bakassi Boys?
		With the Bakassi dispute and the inauguration of a Bayelsa State vigilante force both in the news, this seems as good a time as any to recount the history of the Bakassi Boys.
		In effect, the Bakassi Boys were organized as a state police force, although they were defined as an auxiliary in order to overcome the constitutional prohibition against state police.
		The Bakassi Boys' history remains relevant today, however, both because of Anambra's recent efforts to re-establish a state vigilante force and Bayelsa's inauguration of a state anti-piracy patrol.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/017672.html (778 words)

	Bakassi on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BAKASSI [Bakassi], peninsula, c.400 sq mi (1,000 sq km), on the Cameroon-Nigeria border, at the SE end of the Gulf of Guinea.
		A timetable for the handover of the peninsula has still to be implemented, and the delay has led to new tensions between the two nations.
		Bakassi Boys battle bandits with guns, machetes and Bibles _ but to many, they are just ruthless killers
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Bakassi.asp (330 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Bakassi troops pull-out 'legal'
		But four Bakassi residents went to court to try to stop the planned military pull out from the territory.
		She said the court had no right to interfere with the president's powers, but granted that an estimated 300,000 residents of Bakassi should be protected for as long as they remain a part of Nigeria.
		Bakassi juts into the Gulf of Guinea - which it is thought could contain up to 10% of the world's oil and gas reserves - south of the border between the two countries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3978705.stm (373 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - The latest partition of Africa
		The judges did not avail themselves of the fact that the Cameroonians are mostly hunters and farmers in the forest,and the Efiks, the original owners of Bakassi are born fishermen.
		Cameroonians and Bakassi inhabitants especially the Efiks are culturally and linguistically different as both are victims of the arbitrariness of foreign treaties.
		Nigerians must accept that their officials have been careless with its handling of Bakassi in the past especially in the belated and recent inclusion of Bakassi in the local government structure and the carelessness of its cartographers to give it prominence on the maps which might be due to its difficult terrain.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nta24893.htm (1149 words)

	Agence France Presse English: Disputed Bakassi Peninsula threatens to secede from Nigeria@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tensions were high on Nigeria's disputed border with Cameroon as local leaders from the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula threatened to secede.
		Last week the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that the Bakassi belongs to Cameroon and urged Nigeria to withdraw its troops and administrators from the region.
		But on Friday the region's main political figures vowed to fight to defend the territory and to split from Nigeria if their own government decides to abide by the court ruling.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:68816353&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (224 words)

	Weekly Trust - Nigeria has no substantive claim on Bakassi–Cameroonian politician (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fru Ndi: Well, if Nigerians thought that the court may not be fair because the president of the court is a Frenchman they should have come up with their objection from the onset to say that we believe that the court may not be objective because of certain relationship that exist between France and Cameroon.
		The Bakassi area is inhabited by Nigerians, and there have been complaints by Nigerians living here in Cameroon over their humiliation because of certain taxes and what have you.
		So whether they took care of the Bakassi peninsula and got the schools, got the administration under control… but if we find out that Nigeria is tapping their oil there… the moment I start there with an easy tap, Nigeria may not have much to tap I don’t think I should have it all alone.
	www.weeklytrust.com /nigeria13122002.htm (2627 words)

	'Nigeria will not cede Bakassi to Cameroon' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bakassi's member in the House of Representatives would not directly address the issue of the Wednesday deadline, but said that he had been assured by Nigeria's negotiators that, with 48 hours to go, no decision had been reached.
		Obasanjo's spokeswoman and Nigerian military officials refused to comment on the pull-out, which was due to begin on September 15 under the timetable of a United Nations-led joint border commission between Nigeria and Cameroon.
		Bakassi, a 1,000 square kilometre patch of coastal swamp jutting out into the Atlantic, was awarded to Cameroon in October 2002 by the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
	www.suntimes.co.za /zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket6st/basket6st1095135410.aspx (444 words)

	News -- Nigeria to withdraw from Bakassi April 2004
		The pledge was made in Abuja by the Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Chief Akin Olujimi, at the opening of the sixth session of both countries' joint commission on the disputed area.
		February 2004 would be used by the mixed commission to consider practical matters relating to the withdrawal of civil administration and military and police forces from Bakassi Peninsula taking into account the outcome of the preparatory meeting while the mixed commission observer personnel would be deployed to the Bakassi Peninsula in March 2004.
		In 2005, the final report to the mixed commission by the sub-commission on demarcation on the completion of the boundary demarcation is supposed to be received.
	odili.net /news/source/2003/oct/30/3.html (1113 words)

	Bakassi: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
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	Who Are Bakassi Boys By Harry Nwana
		Asked thereafter to choose between the Bakassi Boys and the police, the village folks preferred the former.
		But whereas police informants were betrayed through the flippancy, irresponsibility and criminal intent of the bad eggs in the force, Bakassi Boys did not have that problem or gloat about their successes.
		And above all, the Bakassi Boys must see themselves as an ad hoc outfit on a special assignment and be ready to fold up when and if the police are fully prepared to assume their full responsibilities.
	www.waado.org /NigerDelta/Documents/ConstitutionalMatters/PoliceVigilante/BakassiBoys-Nwana.html (829 words)

	Planet Ark : Cameroonians kept in limbo over oil-rich peninsula
		They should have been able to return on September 15, when Nigeria was to hand over Bakassi to Cameroon in line with a 2002 International Court of Justice ruling on their common border.
		He was in charge of Kombo Itindi in Bakassi before he fled to Mundemba, 40 km (25 miles) to the north.
		Magdalene Pundi, 28, was a busy hairdresser in Bakassi but now she is a single mother of two struggling to make ends meet.
	www.planetark.com /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/27673/story.htm (1122 words)

	The Legitimization of Murder and Torture
		It is not a coincidence that groups like the Bakassi Boys emerged at a time when the political balance between federal and state governments shifted: the power of state governors has increased significantly in relation to the federal center since 1999, as increased revenue has been distributed to state and local government levels.
		The Bakassi Boys claim that all their members are carefully recruited and vetted to ensure that they have a "clean" record and have not engaged in criminal activities in the past.
		He praised the work of the Bakassi Boys in Anambra State and claimed that everyone was happy with them, with the exception of a handful of disgruntled politicians who were worried that the Bakassi Boys' success in dealing with insecurity would enhance the political future of the Anambra State governor.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2002/nigeria2/nigeria0502-02.htm (6049 words)

	The Bakassi Story
		In the first installment titled "The Bakassi Story", we reviewed a very brief summary of the history of the dispute starting from the Treaty between England and Old Calabar in 1884 all the way through to the ICJ judgement of October 10, 2002.
		Importantly, the Bakassi peninsula which was part of Kamerun/Cameroon since 1913, as inherited in the league of Nations mandate after World War 1, was also excised from co-administration with the eastern region along with the rest of the southern Cameroons at that time.
		Nevertheless, Nigeria, perhaps not wanting to rock the boat, having successfully staved of Cameroun’s challenge to the northern Cameroons plebiscite, voted at the UN to approve the results of the southern Cameroons plebiscite, oblivious to certain subtle issues of legality, due process and self-interest that were lurking in the background.
	www.dawodu.com /bakassi3.htm (8915 words)

	Nigeria's Vigilante Justice
		When the Bakassi Boys came to Onitsha in August 2000, this largely Christian city in Nigeria's Anambra state was terrorized by armed robbers, says Chima Nwaiwu, 31, a correspondent for Nigeria's National Post.
		In the Bakassi Boys' office, animal hides are nailed to the wall.
		Anyogo says the Bakassi Boys were recently used to subdue opposition partisans during an intraparty squabble.
	www.motherjones.com /web_exclusives/features/news/bakassi.html (1375 words)

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