Subject: Cameroon - Chad<br/>
Date: Nov 29, 2003 @ 18:58<br/>
Author: Doug Murray (Doug Murray &lt;doug@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2018246287">From: thisdayonline.com (Lagos, Nigeria)<br/>
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Cameroon to Take over 33 Lake Chad Villages<br/>
 From Mustapha Muhammad in Maiduguri<br/>
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In line with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judgement over <br/>
Nigeria-Cameroon dispute, a total sovereignty over the 33 villages in <br/>
the Lake Chad area will from January 1, 2004 in effect revert back to <br/>
Cameroon.<br/>
Chairman of the Nigerian delegation to the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed <br/>
Commission, Prince Bola Ajibola, made the declaration in Maiduguri, <br/>
Wednesday during a visit to the Borno State Governor, Senator Ali Modu <br/>
Sheriff. Ajibola said that the parties decided to complete a total <br/>
withdrawal of administration, police and military establishments from <br/>
areas ceded to each country by ICJ judgment by December 2003.<br/>
Though, he said it was discovered that the demarcation within the Lake <br/>
Chad Basin had not been completed, particularly from pillar 5 to the <br/>
bifurcation of the Ebeji River, the need to complete this demarcation, <br/>
he said was however, brought to the notice of the Cameroon delegates.<br/>
&quot;If and when this demarcation is accomplished, there will be need for <br/>
Cameroon to surrender the sovereignty that it has been exercising over <br/>
Danbore (East) village, to Nigeria. In other words, Cameroon will still <br/>
need to vacate its own administration in this area,&quot; he stressed.<br/>
Ajibola admitted that the prospect of conflict between the two <br/>
countries has been minimised following the establishment of the <br/>
Cameroon, Nigeria Mixed Commission adding that mutual understanding and <br/>
confidence developed between them had been re-established further.<br/>
He said the confidence-building initiative that evolved between both <br/>
countries, necessitated the building of bridges between the two peoples <br/>
through the rehabilitation of the <br/>
Kumba-Muntangene-Mamfe-Eyumojok-Ekok-Mfun-Ikom-Abakaliki road network <br/>
addin gthat the road network has been inspected in February 2003.<br/>
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