NEWS UPDATES:17 people missing, 1,900 displaced as gendarmes attacked Bakassi village.

Seventeen people are missing even as 1,900 refuges are camped atthe St
Mark Primary School, Eyo Edem in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of
Cross River State.
Senator Florence Ita Giwa who visited the refugee camp which has
witnessed three births by yesterday, said the people were those
attacked by the Cameroonian gendarmes in their village, Efut Obot
Ikot.
According to her, 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.
She said: "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."
Bemoaning the squalid condition under which the people are living in
the camp, Senator Giwa said 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 ruilng 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."
SOURCE: VANGUARD