The International Court of Justice’s judgment of October 2002, may have been given, and the Green Tree Agreement arising from this judgment, may have been made with the best of intention; but then some of the greatest atrocities or mistakes in the world were committed, some in honest error, with the best of intentions.

JUDGE Al Khasaweh fur ther challenged the ICJ where he opined that “no support can be found to the Court conclusion by reference to the Western Sahara or the Island of Palmas decisions.”

Mallam Abdullahi U. Maiyaki, a senior research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Lagos in this second edition of the Vanguard Media series on rethinking the judgment of ICJ and options before the Federal Government where the executive seems to be alone in conceding Bakassi provides fresh insights on options before President Goodluck Jonathan

In less than one month, Nigeria will forgo Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon unless Nigeria raises an appeal against the verdict of the Hague based International Court of Justice which awarded the sovereignty of Bakassi peninsula to the Central African country using the 1913 Anglo-German treaty as the basis of its decision.

Jumping from one inconclusive economic and political issue to another appears to be a factor that is fast defining the Presidency of Nigeria’s Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.