By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

Calabar—The Cross River State Government has called on the State House of Assembly to pass a resolution urging the Federal Government to accelerate the process of reaching a bilateral agreement with the Republic of Cameroon.

According to to the government, the bilateral agreement should be in thearea of security to reduce  alleged incessant attacks on  Nigerian nationals by the Cameroonian gendarmes within the Nigerian and Cameroonian borders in Cross River
State.

The State Security Adviser, Mr. Rekpene Bassey, who made the call when the House Committee on Security, Conflict and Disaster Management visited him,  said there  was an arrangement for the establishment of a Neighbourhood Security Watch, NSW, and a Quick Intervention Squad, QIS, by the state government.

Bassey told the House Committee Chairman: “One of the areas where I eagerly look forward to immediate intervention by the House of Assembly is in the area of passing a resolution to ask the Federal Government to accelerate the process of reaching bilateral agreement with the Republic of Cameroon.”