Efik Threatens Secession Over Ceding Of Bakassi

Some aggrieved members
of the  Efik Eburutu  Royal Fraternity Forum have vowed to  pull out of  Nigeria accusing  the federal government of not doing enough to  restrain the United Nations Boundary Adjustment Team from  further ceding three of its  political wards of Ikang North, Central and south to the Cameroon.
Speaking  to newsmen in Calabar at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press Centre , Chairman for the forum, High Chief Eyo Bassey Eyo-Cobham accused the federal government of not doing enough to develop  the socio-economic wellbeing of the people, stressing that if the federal government is serious about the Efik Nation’s Corperate existence it should implement 1914 amalgamation document enshrined in Articles 1, 3-21 of the United Nation Charter of federal republic of Nigeria.
The forum lambast accused the  federal government of failing to stop the further ceding of the nations territories to its neighbouring Cameroon adding that would seek redress from other international communities like the African Union and the UN if need be.
He blamed federal government for allowing the Boundary Committee to rename three wards which originally belong to Efik territories as part of Bakassi which were subsequently ceded to the Cameroon adding that those wards were never part of  Bakassi.
The forum urged the government to end  further ploy of handing over more Efiks territories to the Cameroons stating further that  the federal government was unduly interfering with matters of efik kingship and throne.
The forum said  stressing that government had surreptitiously basterdized the selection and enthronement of paramount rulers, within the Efik kingdom without due reference to the tradition of the Efik people.