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BAKASSI: UN should organise a plebiscite

THE Nigerian legal team accepted Articles 1-17 of the Anglo-German Agreement of March 11, 1913, but rejected Article 20, which purportedly gave Bakassi to Cameroon. Nigeria and Cameroon even bound themselves before the court, to accept Articles 18-20 of the said Agreement, but neglected to bind themselves by Article 21, which sends the boundary left from the mouth of the Akwa Yafe River, thence to Rio del Rey River and the sea.

BAKASSI: Peninsula not in 26 districts plebiscite of southern Cameroun

THE Milner/Simone Declaration which showed the partition of Cameroon between Britain and France was not the work of the League. The British and French powers partitioned Cameroons to their satisfaction before they presented it to the League for the Mandate Signature.

BAKASSI: 1922 – 39 maps had Rio del Rey as eastern end of peninsula

PROFESSOR J.C. Anene confirms in his book, International Boundaries of Nigeria, that this portion of the boundary from the sea, at Bakassi, to the Cross River “Rapids”, had been settled by 1913, and were not nullified by the 1913 Agreements: “In the final settlement, the “rapids” of the provisional boundary became the thalweg of the Cross River at the bend of the river about two and a half miles upstream from Obokun.

Vanguard Detty December

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