YOLA — Kwaja community in Mubi South Local Government Area of Adamawa State has staged a protest over alleged encroachment of their land by the Cameroonian authorities and demanded Federal Government urgent intervention.
The community alleged that Cameroonian officials on 14 February 2022 Cameroonian authority had erected demarcation signs in Kwaja, Kinga, Jugrma, and Fajawa Girziya villages of Mubi South Local Government Area known for the cultivation of Irish potato.
The protesters carried placards with various inscriptions, saying they were denied access to their farmlands.
Some of the placards read: Maintain ICJ position, We agreed to the 1932 Thompson Marchand Declaration, We request for Protection from Nigerian Government.
Spokesman of the community, Dr. Ibrahim Kwaja said a letter requesting the Nigerian government to protect the rights and interests of the people has been addressed to the Federal and State governments and Nigeria/Cameroon Mixed Commission on the boundary, stressing that the community was amalgamated as part of Northern protectorate in 1914.
According to him, the letter agrees to the Thompson Marchand declaration of 1934 which the International Court of Justice accepts as the correct instrument that defines the boundary in the Kwaja area against the watershed line.
Part of the letter reads: In respect of the ICJ judgement, we stand to argue that our people from generation have never in any case spread beyond Nigerian boundary.
We would not continue to watch our community tortured by confiscation of our shelter and farmlands”.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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