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Friday 24th September 2004 HOME | back to previous page Bakassi indegenes plan alliance with MASSOB By Rotimi Fadeyi (Abuja) and Bassey Inyang (Calabar)   Apparently disappointed that the Nigerian Government is bent on handing over the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroun, its indigenes are considering working in league with the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) towards self-determination. Joining forces with the MASSOB is one of the several options being considered by the people who have pledged to resist any attempt to handover the territory to Cameroun. Although the hand over was not effected on September 15 as planned, Nigeria, Cameroon and the United Nations (UN) have agreed a new date of November 3, 2004 for the transfer. One of the leading residents of the peninsula, Asuquo Effiom Etim, said should they be abandoned by Nigeria, the next option would be joining forces with the MASSOB. Etim, a kingmaker in the Efik kingdom, explained that the consideration became necessary because Bakassi was part of the defunct Biafra before it was handed over to Cameroun. Meanwhile, the paramount ruler of Bakassi kingdom, Etinyin Etim Okon Edet and two other indigenes have gone to court seeking an order to stop the government from ceding it to Cameroun. In a suit, filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja by Kolapo Adabale on behalf of the plaintiffs, the indigenes said the proposed handing over is unconstitutional in view of Section 3 (6) of and Part 1 of the First Schedule to the Constitution. Among others, they argued that the proposed handing over cannot take place without an Act of the National Assembly for that purpose under Section 8 (2) of the Constitution. When the matter came up before Justice Binta Nyako on Wednesday, plaintiffs� counsel Kolapo Adabale told the court that he was ready to move the motion on notice on behalf of his clients. But government counsel Wole Aina asked for an adjournment to enable him file a counter affidavit. The case has been adjourned till November 3.             Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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