Nigeria’s House of Representatives has suspended a controversial plan to cede Sina Area in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State to the Republic of Cameroon.<\/p>\n
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The House’s Ad hoc Committee on International Boundary Disputes made this conclusion on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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Hon Beni Lar, Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee, made the decision at a hearing on the succession of persistent boundary hotspots along the Nigeria-Cameroon border, which spans from the Lake Chad region down to the Cross River estuaries.<\/p>\n
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The hearing was also to assess the role of the military and para-military and security agencies to safeguard the borders and territorial integrity of the country.<\/p>\n
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In attendance at the hearing was the Director General of the National Boundary Commission, Adamu Adaji; a representative from Sina Area, Adamu Kamale; the Solicitor General of the Federation, Beatrice Jedy-Agba who represented the Attorney General; as well as representatives of the security agencies.<\/p>\n
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Lar said, \u201cWe have to continue this engagement with the relevant community and the boundary commission and come up with a solution. Let us go on a fact-finding mission and then we will intervene. The communities have a right and their right must be considered.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis demarcation exercise has to be put on hold until the disputes are resolved. It should be halted pending the resolution of this committee. We would visit Adamawa and come up with a comprehensive report<\/p>\n
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We will recall that we did the first phase of this similar for the DANARE-BIAJUA AXIS of Cross River State and as a fall out of that, the Rt. Hon Speaker through a request by Hon. Dauda Nyampa included this SINA AREA to the Committee\u2019s terms of reference.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAs usual, we are to interact on the aspects of the likely ceding of SINA to Cameroon thereafter we pay an \u2018on the spot fact-finding visit\u2019 to Adamawa, of which we have notified the Executive Governor.<\/p>\n
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The second aspect of this interactive briefing, which is very critical and crucial is on the role of the military,the para-military and the security agencies towards safeguarding the borders & territorial integrity of nigeria: this briefing is to leverage inputs from the guarantors of our National Security-the Army and the various Security Agencies because in the Committee\u2019s last visit to Cross River state we discovered the lack of Security posts or barracks of any sort along our land borders whereas such is obtained across the Cameroon side of borders, hence, the necessity of this interactive session with our Security formations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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