Abuja - Nigeria’s Senate (upper house of parliament) on Thursday in Abuja rejected the handing over of the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula and other areas under Nigerian control to Cameroon, declaring the handover was unconstitutional.
Nigeria ceded the peninsula to Cameroon on August 14, 2006, in consonance with an October 10, 2002 judgment by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague.
The ICJ based its ruling on a 1913 treaty between former colonial powers Britain and Germany. Cameroon filed its suit on in 1994.
To implement the court’s decision, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo signed the so-called Greentree Agreement with Cameroon’s President Paul Biya on June 12, 2006 in the United States. FULL STORY
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