IG Research Bureau
July 12, 2006
The United Nations Nigeria-Cameroun Mixed Commission is meeting this week in Abuja to deliberate on the implementation of the so-called Greentree Accord. On June 12, 2006 the Federal Republic of Nigeria and French Cameroun (République du Cameroun) signed an Accord in New York orchestrated by France using Kofi Annan. It required that within 90 days, the Federal Republic of Nigeria begin the handover of Bakassi to French Cameroun, a country engaging in documented acts of state-sponsored terror as a colonial occupation force; a country that does not share a maritime boundary with Nigeria and rules the territory and people of the Southern Cameroons of which Bakassi is part of, as a brutal colonial occupier on behalf of France.
This illegitimate action done under the cover of dark in a suburb of New York City, far away from the realities and aspirations, and with absolute disregard to the well being of the human beings affected, reeks of the Berlin Conference of 1884 where Europeans sought to maintain the spoils of slavery after that vile and wicked practice had been outlawed. That fellow Africans partook in this farce in 2006 is quite unfortunate. But seeing the shameful record of failure of Kofi Annan in Rwanda, Darfur and Ivory Coast, it comes as no surprise that he supervised this French-inspired scheme.
However, it can now be said with some certainty that what was accomplished on June 12, 2006 in New York has been an incitement to war in the Gulf of Guinea: Chief Etinyin Etim Okon Edet of Bakassi is said to have written his will; a group called Bakassi Movement for Self-Determination (BAMOSD) has emerged, determined to press for the legitimate right of self-determination of the inhabitants of Bakassi that was arrogantly disregarded in New York; the Camerounese consulate in Calabar has been invaded by students native to Bakassi, challenging the mortgaging of their humanity; the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation (SCAPO) has declared that a new independent republic of the Southern Cameroons and Bakassi is in the offing.
On June 13, 2006, the Interim Government of the Southern Cameroons in exile (IG) noted the agreement with a Press Release that pointed out that the reasons why Nigeria was reluctant to honor the ruling of the court since 2002 has not changed.
When Nigeria follows through with the agreement and hands over Bakassi to French control, the following, amongst others, will come to pass:
• Politically and administratively, the local government and administration of Bakassi will be abolished and replaced by an appointed Prefêt who only speaks the French language and commands a gang of gun carrying and trigger-happy gendarmes who speak and only understand the French language. The governor of the province the Bakassi people will belong to is appointed and takes his orders from Yaoundé, where the commissioned puppet, Paul Biya (who would have been in power for a quarter of a century in 2007), under the tutelage of France waits for his own orders from a racist dictator in Paris.
• Economically, taxes will increase and will be collected enthusiastically by gun carrying men in uniform who play cop, make instant laws, and play judge and executioner all at the same time. Paying taxes on time and with the right amount does not save one from the torture that these men will still exact to extort money on the roadsides with no option for their subjects to seek redress. Any real businesses owned and operated by the people of Bakassi, individually or collectively without the control of Yaoundé, should expect to be undermined and in time seized outright by use of force, sabotage or fraud, without any compensation whatsoever.
• Socio-culturally, social services, community development organizations, road infrastructure, health care and any other service that caters to the welfare and well-being of the Bakassi people, empowering them to live like human beings in a civilized society will be abolished, neglected or outright destroyed to render the people helpless and hopelessly looking towards Yaoundé and Paris for their survival. The people of Bakassi should expect to be made in every way possible to feel inferior to an inferior language and culture because they speak English and are of the Anglo-Saxton cultural heritage. They cannot be allowed to obey any other reason or rationale that is not French and comes from France to serve French interests.
