NIGERIA TO LOSE PART OF ITS TERRITORY TO NEW (UNO) STATE OF CAMEROON JULY 10

The United Nations is on the verge of carving out a new territory from Nigeria and Republic of Cameroon by July 10, to be known as United Nations Organisation (UNO) State of Cameroon.

The development may see Nigeria losing 24 local government areas in the north east, by way of ceding, to the new country.

Borno will lose 5, Adamawa 12, including Atiku’s council area, and Taraba 7.

The council areas to be ceded to the new UNO A of Cameroon include Bama, Gwoza, Ngala, Kala/Balge, Dikwa, Madagali, Michika, Mubi north, Mubi south, Mayo/Belwa, Toungo, Ganye, Serti, Hong, Jada and Maiha, among others.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Paul Biya of Cameroon, on the invitation of the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, had in March 2003 signed documents to cede their disputed territories (Northern and Southern Cameroons) to the proposed UNO new country in West and Central Africa.

The new state will have a total landmass of 28, 214 square km, with an estimated population of 20 million people.

This was disclosed on May 26, 2020, in a letter on the UNO State of Cameroon by the United Nations-appointed workshops coordinator in Cameroon and Nigeria, Professor Martins Chia Ateh.

It noted that the recent withdrawal of troops by President Paul Biya from the southern part of the planned UNO State of Cameroon, which was said to have been formally demanded by the former President of the United Nations General Assembly, Ali Treki, on May 20, set the stage for the creation of the new state being spearheaded by the UN.

Nigeria, particularly in the Northeast region with a decade-long Boko Haram insurgency is sandwiched between its territory and Cameroon, with Bakassi Peninsula and Lake Chad located south and northeast of the UNO State of Cameroon.

The UN had kept Northern and Southern Cameroons under watch since Obasanjo and Biya signed the documents under the UN treaty before the announcement of the new state.

The organisation, according to recent reports, pledged to actualise a new State of Cameroon on July 10, 2020.

Meanwhile, the Secretary-General of UN, Antonio Guterres has commenced the process of sensitisation towards the July 10 date of creating the new state for the Anglophone separatists in Cameroon.