President Muhammadu Buhari
has put on hold exploitation of hydrocarbon deposits in Bakassi peninsula till
the joint technical committee on the Green Tree Agreement submits its report.
This is even as the Cameroonian
President, Paul Biya, denied that his country was ever a safe haven to the
terrorist sect, Boko Haram. Both leaders spoke at a joint press conference to
end Biya’s two-day working visit to Nigeria.
Buhari told Biya that there was
no cause for Cameroonians to lose sleep over the Peninsula as the committee’s
outcome would put paid to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) resolutions.
A technical committee,
comprising experts from both countries are currently working to fine-tune some
grey areas, bodering on identity, resettlement, compensation for loss of
territory, oil exploration, development of Day Spring Island, socio-cultural
differences, fishing right, among other issues before full implementation of
resolutions spelt out by the ICJ.