PENINSULA DISPUTE BETWEEN CAMEROON AND NIGERIA

Amos AdeoyeIdowu, Ph.D
Publisher: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF THE FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), UMUNZE, ANAMBRA STATE {"id":6,"volume_name":"Vol 5 Number 2","created_at":null,"updated_at":null,"url":"volumes\/5.jpg"} (2): 1118-0315: doi: January 2017 Published in 2017

The study revisited the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the boundary dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria involving Bakassi Peninsula and efforts by the two nations to ensure its full implementation. The methodology included certain normative theories and principles using primary and secondary sources of information. Data obtained were subjected to content and contextual analyses. It found that the ICJ judgment of 10 October. 2002 ceding Bakassi to Cameroon was initially unacceptable to Nigeria. Despite the Green Tree Agreement and Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission established for implementing the Judgment, agitations by Nigerians for its revision and violence in the Peninsula had persisted though Nigeria and Cameroon had restrained from war, the Judgment had not resolved the dispute completely, Effective implementation of the judgment would depend upon workable strategies between Nigeria and Cameroon for addressing humanitarian needs, demarcation problems, intermittent violence and human rights violation in the peninsula.

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