The United Nations has denied any plan by it to carve out another country or territory from Nigeria and Cameroon.
According to multiple reports, the purported name of the new country is UNO State of Cameroon
Also, it was reported that in the new country’s map, Nigeria will purportedly lose 24 local councils said to be captured in the green tree agreement signed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo for Nigeria and Paul Biya for Cameroun in 2006.
According to reports, the Google map of UNO State of Cameroon, comprises northern and southern Cameroons.
Twenty four Local Government Areas in the Northeast, Nigeria are being demarcated to form Northern Cameroons.
The ceded councils to Northern Cameroons include, 24 councils in Borno (five), Adamawa (12) and Taraba (seven) states.
Whereas, some reports had referred to an agreement, which gave July 10, 2020, as date for its proclamation and implementation, a source in the United Nations office in Nigeria has it is all lies. He said UN does not have the power to create countries.
Also, it was being speculated that the withdrawal of soldiers by the Cameroonian President, Paul Biya from the southern part of the planned UN State of Cameroon has set the stage for the creation of the new state being spearheaded by the UN.
According to reports, the withdrawal of troops by Biya was formally demanded by the former President of the United Nations General Assembly, Ali A. Treki, on May 20, 2020. This was disclosed in a May 26, 2020 letter of the UNO State of Cameroon to Prof. Martins Chia Ateh, the United Nations-appointed workshops coordinator in Cameroon and Nigeria.
In the report as quoted by some online media, Ateh in a letter said: “Greetings and thank you very much for the attached list of those who were detained in the Nkamde prison in Cameroon on August 2008.
“It is only now that soldiers of la Republic du Cameroon are being withdrawn from the Southern part of UNO State of Cameroon. It was a good thing,” he said.
Dismissing the report, a former director-general of the National Boundary Commission between 1999 and 2006, Dahiru Bobbo said there was no agreement between Nigeria and Cameroon to cede any portion of its territory to UN or any other country.
He added that he could not confirm that there was never a summit between Obasanjo and Biya throughout 2003.
“Therefore there could have been no agreement, treaty, communique or any other bilateral exchange of documents between Cameroon and Nigeria on cessation of territories to UN or to anybody for that matter.
“The records available confirmed only two meetings of Presidents Obasanjo of Nigeria and Biya of Cameroon in Paris on 5th September 2002 and Geneva on 15 November 2002 both on the invitations of the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Anan.
“The communiques issued on the two summits were in respect of the establishment of a Cameroon Nigerian Mixed Commission on the implementation of the decisions of the international Court of justice at the Hague (The World Court) on Bakassi Peninsula and the Land boundary between Nigeria and Cameroon.
“The mixed commission of which I was a member and secretary handled the assignment and handed over territories to both Cameroon and Nigeria as ruled by the World Court including Dambore, Narki (Borno) and Burha Vango (Adamawa to Nigeria and Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon.
“The last two meetings between the UN Secretary General, President Biya and President Obasanjo were held in Geneva on 11 May 2005, and at Green tree, New York on 12 June 2006 concerning the Modalities of Withdrawal and Transfer of Authority in the Bakassi Peninsula,” Bobbo said.
