Nigeria: Govt Inaugurates Committee On Bakassi Returnees
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Leadership (Abuja)
8 August 2008
Posted to the web 8 August 2008
Bernard Tolani Dada
A senior advocate of Nigeria Chief Assam Assam has been named to head the newly inaugurated committee on impact of the Bakassi judgment of the International court of justice at the Hague as it affects returnees from Akwa Ibom State.
Inaugurating the committee in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state Governor Chief Godswill Akpabio explained that setting up the committee was necessitated by the raging controversy surrounding the ownership of Bakassi following the ceding of the peninsula to the republic of Cameroun by Nigerian government on the heels of the International court of Justice (ICJ.)
The Governor explained that since it was a well known fact that more than 90 per cent of the returnees from Bakassi are from Akwa Ibom state, his administration being a responsive one was duty bound to take concrete and genuine step without prejudice to the final decision of the ICJ toward ensuring that those who were displaced in the aftermath of the judgment are adequately resettled and reintegrated culturally politically, socially and economically.
"We also owe the people of Akwa Ibom State the obligation to mitigate broader impact of the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula on the state population, resources, boundaries and overall economy" he said.
The state Government, noted Chief Akpabio, was not insensitive to multiple implication of the judgment on the state and its people stressing that since the crises, the affected people have been living in shanties and abject poverty, due to the fact that resources that were released for their upkeep and settlement have been channeled to wrong quarters.
He charged members of the committee whom he described as men and women of quality to see their nomination as a task and ensure that the plight of the hapless returnees are considered in their deliberations.
The committee was given two weeks to carry out the assignment and submit a comprehensive report to the government
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Responding the chairman of the committee Chief Assam Assam expressed appreciation to the government of the state for finding them worthy to serve in the committee and assured that they would do their best in presenting a comprehensive report that will be of great benefit to the people of the state.
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