Subject: is independent bakassi tripoint subsumed by greater ambazanian one
Date: Aug 17, 2006 @ 22:00
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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Meanwhile the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation
(SCAPO) yesterday threw its weight behind the Bakassi
youths who declared their independence.
In a letter sent to the Bakassi youths and signed by
its chairman, Dr. Kevin Ngwang Gumne, SCAPO said the
independence of the Bakassi Peninsula is also the
independence of the Republic of Ambazania.
In taking this decision you will ensure that the
future of the Bakassi Peninsula is now in your hands
and not in the hands of international civil servants
in The Hague or in New York.
Your ancestors who are buried on the peninsula now
expect you to make all the sacrifices necessary to
protect the sacrosanctity of their final resting
places. If you fail to do so, then your independence
declaration would have been mere words pronounced in
vain the ghosts of your ancestors will haunt you
forever.
Indeed the Green tree Agreement lacks the force of
international law because it was neither adopted by
the African Union nor the UN Security Council.
We also understand that because of its questionable
legality, there is now a pending lawsuit in the
Federal High Court in Nigeria, which has been filed by
plaintiffs from the Bakassi Peninsula who have posited
that the agreement cannot be implemented without
recourse to the Nigerian legislature because failure
to do so would place the agreement in violation of the
Nigerian constitution.
The agreement also violates the African Charter of
Human and Peoples Rights because it seeks to impose
Camerounian nationality on the unwilling indigenes of
the peninsula without the benefit of any process of
political consultation; failing this, the agreement
presents the indigenes of the peninsula with the
devils alternative of effectively dispossessing them
of their ancestral lands if they should choose not to
accept the Camerounian nationality, the letter reads.
so
the tamnyar location may well be more plausible &
probable than the archibong location for the eventual
breakaway tripoint position