We’d return to the creeks, Bakassi youths threaten

Date: 22-07-2012 9:36 am (12 years ago) | Author: Omogbolahan Babs
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THE youths of Bakassi Local Government Area in Cross River State have threatened to render the entire Gulf of Guinea inaccessible to oil and marine exploration activities. 
The Paramount Ruler of Bakassi, Etim Okon Edet, disclosed this over the weekend while speaking with newsmen. 
Edet said: “With total abandonment by Nigeria, the youths are threatening to go back to the creeks to render the entire Gulf of Guinea in-accessible to oil and marine exploration activities in collaboration with their Niger Delta compatriots and their Northern sympathisers.
“They have threatened that before October 10, 2012, they will take back their Bakassi in whatever means possible if urgent steps are not taken by the Federal Government to redress the above.
“Nigerians should bear me witness that I have tried my best over the period from the day the ICJ judgement till today to maintain peace and order within the affected population.”
He alleged fishermen from Cross River are not allowed access to the peninsular because Cameroonian gendarmes harass, molest and kill them.  
The paramount ruler lamented the loss of identity and the problem of integration with the host communities. 
He also said they have lost electoral wards in the new location.
He said there has been no proper resettlement, while the welfare needs of the displaced population had been abandoned.


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