Cameroon, Nigeria and the UN all in tandem for the peaceful ceding of Bakassi Peninsula in August 2008

THE Observer Team from the United Nations Office for West Africa has promised full co-operation with Nigeria as the country prepares to move natives of Bakassi indigenes from the ceded Bakassi Peninsula, reports the Vanguard.

"The Senior Military Advisor, United Nations Office for West Africa, Brigadier Danilo Paiva disclosed this in Calabar when he and his team met with Governor Liyel Imoke at Government House in Calabar" the paper said further.

The paper quoted the senior Military Advisor, saying that the resettlement of Bakassi indigenes is
receiving tremendous attention despite significant challenges associated with new experience in
resettlement process.

Meanwhile Governor Liyel Imoke in his addressing to the UN Team, reiterated his government's commitment to also co-operate with the United Nations in the implementation of the Green Tree Agreement on the peaceful handing over of the peninsula in August, 2008.

He expressed confidence that peace will be maintained in the area in consonance with the Green Tree Agreement reached in 2002 with the co-operation of the UN Team.

The leader of the Nigerian delegation at the Nigeria-Cameroun Mixed Commission and
Director-General, Border Communities Development Commission, Cross River State, Mrs. Nella Ewa said so far, the Maritime Boundary bordering Nigeria and Cameroun had been resolved while resolution on the land boundary between the two countries is underway.

Ewa said the UN is looking into the development and management of Bakasi as partners in the resettlement process.