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Southern Cameroon IG Department of Media & Communication Private Lock Box 580498 Minneapolis, MN 55458-0498 Contact: [email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ON THE ACCORD BETWEEN LA REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN AND NIGERIA ENDING BAKASSI BORDER DISPUTE
The agreement concluded in New York yesterday June 12, 2006 under the auspices of Kofi Annan is just another of a series of agreements reached by the democratically elected government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a French planted junta in the French colony of La R�publique du Cameroun. The reasons why the previous agreements between these odd couples have failed have not changed. We are confident that the government of Nigeria will continue to allow the rights of the people of Bakassi and the Southern Cameroons to guide her actions.
We understand the pressure, which France, using regional and international organizations, has been putting on the government of Nigeria to hand over Bakassi to her colonial control. But we will like to remind Nigeria that she will be acting contrary to her interest, the interest of the people of Bakassi, the interest of the people of the Southern Cameroons and the interest of the people of Africa if she chooses to obey foreign laws imposed by French imperialism over the laws of her own courts.
The peoples of the Southern Cameroons and their representatives, using the instruments of international law obtained a Judgment in Suit No.: FHC/ABJ/CS/30/2002 in the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Holden in Abuja in 2002.
The demand of the people of the Southern Cameroons, of which Bakassi is part and parcel of, was to have the Nigerian High Court rule on the following:
1. A DECLARATION that under Articles 1 and 20 (1) (2) and (3) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap 10, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990 the Federal Republic of Nigeria has a legal duty to place before the International Court of Justice and the United Nations General Assembly and ensure diligent prosecution to conclusion the claim of the peoples of Southern Cameroons to self-determination and their declaration of independence.
2. AN ORDER compelling the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to place before the International Court of Justice and the United Nations General Assembly, and ensure diligent prosecution to conclusion the claim of the peoples of Southern Cameroons to self-determination and their declaration of independence.
3. A PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria whether by herself, her servants, agents and or representatives or otherwise howsoever from treating or continuing to treat or regard the Southern Cameroons [including Bakassi] and the peoples of the territory as an integral part of la Republique du Cameroun (Republic of Cameroun).
The FEDERAL HIGH COURT OF NIGERIA, HOLDEN IN ABUJA ruled as follows:
1. The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall institute a case before the International Court of Justice concerning the following:
(a) Whether the Union envisaged under the Southern Cameroons Plebiscite 1961 between La Republique du Cameroun and Southern Cameroons legally took effect as contemplated by the relevant United Nations Resolutions, particularly United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1352 (XIV) of 16th October 1959 and United Nations Trusteeship Council Resolution 2013(XXIV) of 31st May 1960.
(b) Whether the termination by the Government of the United Kingdom of its trusteeship over the Southern Cameroons on 30th September 1961 without ensuring prior implementation of the Constitutional arrangements under which the Southern Cameroons and La Republique du Cameroun were to unite as one Federal State was not in breach of Articles 3 and 6 of the Trusteeship Agreement for the Territory of the Southern Cameroons under British Administration approved by the General Assembly Resolutions 1352 of 16th October 1959; 1608 of 21st April 1961, the United Nations Trusteeship Council Resolution 2013 (XXIV) of May 31, 1960 and Article 76 (b) of the Charter of the United Nations.
(c) Was the assumption of Sovereign Powers on 1st October 1961 and the continued exercise of same by the Government of La Republique du Cameroun over Southern Cameroons (after the termination by the Government of the United Kingdom of its Trusteeship over the territory) legal and valid when the Union between the Southern Cameroons and La Republique du Cameroun contemplated by the Southern Cameroons Plebiscite, 1961 had not legally taken effect?
(d) Whether the peoples of the Southern Cameroons are not entitled to self-determination within their clearly defined territory separate from La Republique du Cameroun.
(e) Whether it is the Southern Cameroons and not La Republique du Cameroun that shares a maritime boundary with the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
2. The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall take any other measures as may be necessary to place the case of the peoples of the geographical territory known as at 1st October 1960 as Southern Cameroons for self-determination before the United Nations General Assembly and any other relevant International organizations.
If this so called agreement is honored by the government of Nigeria as written we will be happy to:
1) Invite the people of Bakassi, by whatever means necessary, to subvert and resist their incorporation into the colonial dominion of France, recalling that France views the territory of the Southern Cameroons and her peoples as �little gift� to her. 2) Invite the Southern Cameroons Defense Forces (SOCADEF) to intensify preparations to take head on the French and their colonial occupation regime in the Southern Cameroons. 3) Invite all citizens of the Southern Cameroons to prepare robust civil defense entities and mechanisms to defend their lives.
Like in Rwanda and Darfur, the United Nations could care less about the humanity of Africans. Like in Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville, Cote d�Ivoire and Chad, the French have carte blanche from the so-called international community to engage in criminality and de-humanization with absolute impunity in Africa. We will no longer accept it.
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About the Southern Cameroons Interim Government-In-Exile (IG) www.SouthernCameroonsIG.org
The IG was formed in September of 2003 after an International Conference held in Minneapolis, USA, of all Southern Cameroons Liberation Movements including the SCYL, SCNC, the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organization (SCAPO), and the Southern Cameroons Restoration Movement (SCARM). The IG is dedicated to the liberation of the people of the Southern Cameroons from the brutal colonial control of France, masquerading as la R�publique du Cameroun.
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