William told Daily Sun in an interview that since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judgment of 2002 and handing over on August 14, 2008, that ceded Bakassi to Cameroon, the people of Bakassi were no more in Nigeria and were not willing to go to Cameroon, so the best thing left for the people was through self-determination of a Bakassi nation.
His words: “Since you said we are no more in Nigeria, we don’t want to be in Nigeria or Cameroon. Other places where the ICJ judgments did not favour them have been granted self-determination.”
The ACN chieftain described, as worrisome, the negative impression by both the Cross River State Government and the National Assembly that Bakassi was still in Nigeria, noting that Nigeria at the moment had 773 local government areas contrary to claims of 774 because according to him, Bakassi had been ceded to Cameroon.
“In Cross River State they keep saying they have 18 local government areas, we have just 17 local government areas and not 18. They keep saying some part of Bakassi was ceded, which part? Don’t you know where Day-Spring is, in Akpabuyo Local Government Local Government Area, if it were some part, how come they are creating Bakassi in another local government area, they should turn the remaining part to Bakassi,” he said.
He further stated that the Cross River Government through Edict No 7 had no constitutional powers to create a local government Area more so to call any part of Akpabuyo Local Government Area as new Bakassi as it does not exist in law.
He faulted the position of the National Assembly that Bakassi was still an integral part of Nigeria, saying Bakassi through the Green Tree Agreement and the ICJ judgment had been ceded to Cameroon, “once the land was ceded you cannot continue to call it Bakassi,” he stated.
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