Fear as State Governor fights Bakassi Peninsular

                                                                   
Cross River State Governor , Ben Ayade, has described the ceding of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsular by the federal government to the Republic of Cameroon as the most unconstitutional and most ungodly act in recent times.

Ayade who expressed this when he received the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas on a courtesy visit to Government House, Calabar, recalled, “we have a very big challenge. The ceding of Bakassi was the most ungodly act given the way and manner it was done. The state is still hurt”.

Describing it as a social injustice “that has left us with a scar” he said, “The people of Bakassi are living with emotional and psychological scar as a result of the loss of their ancestral home.

The ceding was done without a plebiscite, without a referendum ,which the people feel was a moral injustice. It has also created a security tension and crisis situation which rests on your shoulders to ensure that you put them under control in keeping with the presidential mandate of sanitizing the country’s water ways.

On the disputed 76 oil wells that were transferred to Akwa Ibom State, Governor Ayade quipped “it is a very sad news to report to you that the principle of the doctrine of changing circumstances which is a maritime principle in delineation of boundary was grossly abused in the way and manner that the boundary between Cross River, Cameroon and Akwa Ibom was done”.

According to the governor, it was done in such a way that the maritime boundary is on a moving structure which is on top of water within the international maritime law, saying that it is totally unacceptable.

He said it would not be out of place should the Supreme Court reverse itself on the matter