Chairman, House of Representatives’ Committee on International Agreements and Conventions, Hon. Ekundayo Bush-Alebiosu, spoke with Gboyega Akinsanmi on the plight of Bakassi people as well as diverse issues, including the domestication of treaties to which Nigeria is a signatory. Excerpts... The Cross Rivers State House of Assembly has called for a review of the judgment of International Court of Justice that ceded Bakassi to Cameroon. Do you see any prospect in the renewed agitation?

First of all, we need to understand that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) had given its judgement on the issue. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was blamed for going to the court on the issue. It contravenes the fact that he did not go to court. Cameroon dragged us to court on the issue.

What we should have done before the matter was dragged to the ICJ was that we should have made a declaration that ‘we refuse to lay ourselves to the rulings of the ICJ.’ But we did not. We actually put up a defence and paid hundreds of millions of dollars from what we had gathered as professional fees. Now we have found ourselves in what we have found ourselves.
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