BY  Nnamdi Ojiego

A human rights group, Youth and Conflict Resolution Initiative, YCRI, has decried Federal Government’s silence over the agitations for the review of International Court of Justice, ICJ, verdict which ceded some parts of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State to the Republic of Cameroon, describing it as unjust and a political miscalculation.

The group in a statement by its President and the International Relations Officer, Pastor Alex Kenerekedi and Comrade Efemena Agadama, respectively, also condemned the ICJ’s verdict on Bakassi  asked Jonathan’s administration to commence review process of the ruling without further delay.

The statement said: “ICJ ruling is a gross violation of the morality that holds the human race. It negates and tramples on the very foundation and charter of the Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941 which states that countries seek no aggrandisement, territorial or other. And that they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned.

“Therefore, it is mandatory, not a matter of choice, for the federal government to immediately constitute a very learned team and seek for an immediate review of the case and call for a referendum. It’s a very simple case since the people should decide their fate as Britain is pushing in the Falklands and as the UN did in Sudan.

“We firmly believe that an injury to one Nigerian is an injury to all and that Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution, therefore, it is unjust and a political miscalculation for the Federal Government  to be silent on a burning issue that concerns the entire integrity, wellbeing and survival of the Nigerian nation”, the statement opined.