Efik Kingdom threatens to pull out of Nigeria

UNHAPPY over the loss of Bakassi to Cameroun and other issues, the Efik kingdom in Cross River State has threatened to pull out of Nigeria.
  The Efiks under the Eburutu Royal Fraternity Forum said the Efik Nation has resolved to pull out of Nigeria  because they have been  totally neglected and abandoned.. 
  The chairman of the forum, High Chief Eyo Bassey Eyo Cobham, in a press conference at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press Centre yesterday, said reasons for the decision to pull out include the secret ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon,  undue government interference in Efik kingship and throne and the alleged attempt to cede more Efik territories to Cameroon in  the current boundary adjustment exercise. 
He said: “With such developments and other oppressive acts and tendencies of the Nigerian State, we the Efik Eburutu people say ‘Enough is Enough’ and have decided to take our destinies in our hands peacefully by pulling out of Nigeria.
  “Our peaceful aims and objectives of self-determination for full autonomy are in tandem with Articles 1, 3-21 of the United Nations Charter of which the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a signatory,”. 

 It would be recalled that with the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon in 2002, Cross River lost large chunk of its territory and oil wells to Akwa Ibom state as its littoral status was also lost.
  The Efik have also decried the nonpayment of compensation and non-resettlement of displaced people who are now refugees in their mother land.

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