Nigeria Thursday indicated readiness to appeal against the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling which handed over
Bakassi Peninsula, an oil rich area, to Cameroon about
10 years ago. President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday ordered a review
of the ruling, about a week after the upper legislative chamber,
the Senate, urged him to appeal against the ruling.
Jonathan was reported by Reuters to have set up a
Committee to look at the option of reviewing the ruling
after talks with Vice President Namadi Sambo
and the Senate President, David Mark.
Senators had last week argued that the judgment was unfairly based on an
agreement between the British and local chiefs in 1881, and it should therefore
be subjected to a referendum monitored by the United Nations.
Source:
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