NIGERIA LOSES 24 LGAs TO A NEW COUNTRY
A group advocating for the actualisation of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) State of Cameroon, issued a rejoinder to the UN’s statement that claims it does not create countries. The rejoinder has sieved the facts from the myth of the proposed state. Israel Aliah reports
The Visionary front for the State of Cameroon Independence (VFSCI), a frontline pressure group canvassing for the creation of United Nations Organisation (UNO) State, has written a rejoinder to the UN against its statement that it does not create countries and has no plans to create a country from Nigeria and Cameroun.
The UN was reacting to a report published by the Guardian Newspaper to the effect that Nigeria may lose 24 local councils, by way of ceding, to a new country to be known as United Nations Organisation (UNO) State of Cameroon by July 10 this year.
The paper, which credited its source to Prof. Martins Chia Ateh, the United Nations-appointed workshops coordinator in Cameroon and Nigeria, said 24 LGAs spreading across three states in Nigeria will be ceded to be part of the new state.
The strength of the report was hinged on documents that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Paul Biya signed in March 2003 to cede their twin territories (Northern and Southern Cameroons) to the proposed UNO new country in West and Central Africa. But the UN described the report as false, saying UN does not create countries.
In the rejoinder, entitled: Re: UN Denies Plans to Create New Country from Nigeria, Cameroun, signed by Ebenezer YENDA, as a Representative and made available to Worldview Magazine, the Visionary Front for the State of Cameroons Independence (VFSCI) said by its antecedents, the UN has a role to play in the creation of countries. It also frowned at some mix up and use of wrong phraseology in the media reports, blaming it on what UN capitalized on it to flaunt its denial.
The group emphasized on three ambiguous phraseologies, namely: “carve out a country from Nigeria and Cameroun,” 2) a “July 10” disputed date for the “official announcement of the existence of the UNO State of Cameroon to the international community,” 3) “lose 24 local councils,” as some of the misrepresented phrases that gave rise to the position taken by the UN.
Faulting the July 10th date line stated by media reports for the creation of the state, the organization said:
“On 17 Feb. 2020, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General (UNSG), reported that the UNSG, H.E. Antonio Guterres, “reiterated the readiness of the United Nations to work with all stakeholders towards a political solution to the crisis in the North-West and South-West Regions of Cameroon through meaningful dialogue.” Since the UN is yet “to work with all stakeholders towards a political solution to the crisis in the North-West and South-West Regions of Cameroon through meaningful dialogue,” it’s logical that the UN “official announcement of the existence of the UNO State of Cameroon to the international community” may not be feasible “on July 10, [2020].”
The organization described the UN’s statement that it does not create countries as a “Red Herring fallacy” or a reasoning that is intended to divert the public’s attention away from the root causes of the ongoing Cameroun and Nigeria versus defrauded State of Cameroons dispute.
“At the celebration of the 50th independence feast of the Republic of Cameroun in 2010, the UN General Assembly 64th President, H.E. Ali Treki, gave two farmed maps to President Biya in the plain view of President Goodluck Jonathan, ex-Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo etc., who were special guests; one map showing the frontiers of Cameroun Republic; and the other showing the defrauded Cameroons’ international treaty…..
“So, when the whole story published in the Guardian is “described … as false, saying UN does not create countries,” someone is curious to ask: How should we describe the UN “Partition Plan for Palestine…” proposed by the UN, supported by G.A. 29 Nov. 1947 res. 181 (II) and recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem”?
“How was the UN involved in the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and the same “UN does not create countries” when it comes to the defrauded Cameroons case? It’s also equitable to ask: Whether the UN Office in Nigeria and Nigeria Foreign Affairs Ministry are innocent victims or are active accomplices in their “UN does not create countries” red herring fallacy?”
“UN vote[d] resoundingly to reject Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as [Israel’s] capital.” “The resolution, co-sponsored by Turkey and Yemen, called Trump’s recognition ‘null and void’ and reaffirmed 10 security council resolutions on Jerusalem, dating back to 1967, including requirements that the city’s final status must be decided in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
“The “requirements that the city’s final status must be decided in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians” proves that there is a disputed claim, by two parties, to the Jerusalem area, as the disputed claim, by Southern Cameroons and Cameroun Republic, to the Southern Cameroons area has been since 1 Oct. 1961 to date.” It stated.
The organization cited elaborately, historical facts, statutes and treaties to back up their claim, summing up that:
“It is a case between Nigeria and Cameroun governments versus proprietary beneficiaries of a trust and that the crises is clearly not an internal affair of a State matter but a primary colonial external self-determination trust right defrauding dispute.
“So, while the VFSCI is prepared if needed to elaborate on any of the themes stated in the subject / context of the dispute, with due respect, let the United Nations office in Nigeria cause a clarification, as a communication courtesy, to this rejoinder submitted by the defrauded proprietary beneficiaries of VFSCI who claim for the determination of the following questions:
“Whether regarding the preceding facts with laws, plus Articles 1 and 20 (1) (2) and (3) of African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Chapter A9 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroun are not constructive trustees severally liable under the equitable principles of knowing receipt and wrongful gain in breach of trust duty to make restitution:
“A RESOLUTION ordering or compelling the Nigeria’s Govt. and the Cameroun’s Govt. to make restitution and ensure that their joint National Boundary Commissions trace their own boarders existing on achievement of independence as per Article 4 (b) of Constitutive Act of African Union.” The group said
