FG DISTRIBUTES RELIEF MATERIALS TO BAKASSI INDIGENES

The Federal Government has distributed relief materials to the people Bakassi Peninsula to alleviate their deplorable conditions; the territory was ceded to Republic of Cameroon in line with the International Court of Justice judgment between Nigeria and Cameroon.

 The National Boundary Commission in conjunction with National Emergency Management Agency flagged off the exercise recently in Ikang and Abana town under the Bakassi local Government.

 The trucks loaded with relief materials distributed to Ikang and environs had 1000 bags each of rice, beans, gari, salts and sugar. Other materials are wrapper cloths, blankets, plastics plates, spoons, milks, soaps, detergents and vegetable oils. The distribution to Abana town and environs had 600 bags each of all the relief items provided to Ikang.

 In his speech, the leader of the Nigerian delegation to the Cameroon – Nigeria Mixed Commission, Prince Bola Ajibola represented by the Director General, National Boundary Commission, Surveyor Sadiq Marafa Diggi, said that the Mixed Commission Observer Group visited the Peninsula trice and reported the extreme poor living conditions of the inhabitants in the peninsula and NEMA in conjunction with the National Boundary Commission through the intervention of the President provided the relief materials.

 Assuring the inhabitants of the Federal Governments keen interest on their plights, Prince Bola Ajibola said “from onset Bakassi people have never been orphans and will never be orphans. Government and Nigerians in general have at various times come to your aid politically and when necessary militarily also. We shall always do everything humanly possible to assist and re-integrate you all into the larger Nigerian society”.