Seventeen people have been reported missing after Cameroonian gendarmes attacked Efot Obot Ikot. There are also 1,900 refugeescamped at the St Mark Primary School, Eyo Edem in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State.
Senator Florence Ita Giwa who visited the refugee camp said the people, last month, had to escape, spending several nights in the forest and eventually crossing the Akwa ye Efe river to Akpabuyo where they are presently camped.
“As I speak to you, I cannot believe what the gendarmes did to our people. So many women cannot find their husbands while many children cannot find their mothers. So far, we have counted 17 people who are still missing.”
Ita Giwa bemoaned the living condition in the camp where three births had been witnessed by yesterday, saying the international community had not been fair to the Bakassi people who she said did not cause the situation they now find themselves due to the call by the Nigeria government which obeyed the International Court of Justice ruling that they should remain in their ancestral land and singned “The Green Tree Agreement with Cameroon
According to her, “our Cameroonian brothers have not respected that agreement and are daily attacking and killing our people and the international community is keeping quiet.”
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