Nigeria has summoned Cameroon’s High Commissioner, Amb. Abbas Salahedine, to plough over explanations on the study of maltreatment together with killings of Nigerians inwards the Bakassi Peninsula yesteryear Cameroonian Gendarmes.
Foreign Affairs ministry’s Spokesperson, Mrs Jane Adams, expressed dismay on the incident.
She said the Nigerian citizens inwards Bakassi are reported to convey been subjected to harassment likewise for alleged non-payment of taxes on line-fishing activities.
“The ministry building has instructed the Nigerian Missions inwards Yaounde together with Buea, to investigate the study alongside a thought to confirming their veracity together with inform Headquarters immediately.
“The ministry building appeals to the Cameroonian authorities to practise their duty of attention together with protection over the people of Bakassi, including other Nigerian citizens inwards the area,” she said.
Reports at the disposal of the Nigeria authorities say no fewer than 97 Nigerians were killed equally Republic of Cameroon Gendarmes allegedly attacked residents of Bakassi over failure to pay a N100,000 boat levy.
The study stated that the attackers sacked mainly Nigerians from Akwa Ibom, Cross River together with Ondo states.
Many others were even together with then said to convey escaped at midnight alongside their line-fishing boats together with arrived at Ikang inwards Bakassi together with Ibaka inwards Akwa Ibom.
The killing together with sacking of Nigerians inwards erstwhile Bakassi is believed to endure a violation of the 2005 Green Tree Agreement (GTA) yesteryear the Nigeria-Cameroon Mixed Commission.
The Agreement stipulated that the Bakassi returnees must endure properly resettled to their natural habitat together with then that they tin convey a meaningful living.
The GTA likewise states that Nigerians who select to rest inwards Republic of Cameroon tin create together with then without whatever molestation.
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