The People of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State has accused the Nigerian Government of abandoning the resettlement plans signed under the Green Tree Agreement with the people before ceding the territory to Cameroon.
Leader of the Bakassi People and Former Presidential Adviser on National Assembly matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa made this known after she donated some food and non-foods palliatives to the Internally Displaced Person IDPs at their Akwa Ikot-Edem Refugee Camp in Akpabuyo Area of the State.
Ita-Giwa said all the countries who signed the agreement have since abandoned the people.
She gave Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade, thumbs up for providing for the IDPs periodically, stressing that if not for the Governor’s timely intervention, the Bakassi Returnees would have died of hunger and other diseases.
Some refugees who benefited from the palliatives commended the former Senator on her efforts in ameliorating their suffering.
Over six thousand Bakassi Returnees are currently living in a refugee camps in Akapbuyo and other part of Bakassi local Government Areas.
Governor Ayade recently allocated fifty two bedroom flats with modern facilities to some returnees, a facility which is not adequate compared to the number of displaced persons, hence the call to the n the Federal Government to come to their aide.
