These he can achieve by opening agreements with private sector developers to establish these facilities. Cross River State governor, Sir Ben Ayade has implored the people of South south geographical zone to come together and speak with one voice on the injustices of the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula and the attendant suffering its inhabitants are facing. Analysis: Fitch’s Nigeria stable outlook rating: Glimmer of Hope? "Secondly, Bakassi local government remains part of Nigeria under the constitution. A Businessnewscorp Member Company. Perhaps the council chairman, Iyadim would need to enhance his digitized Bakassi to pull tourist-visitor traffic to the area, being an international boundary, with vast mangrove and tropical rainforests. This makes us the first digital local council in the country, Iyadim boasted. Nigerian military patrols traded fire with Cameroonian forces in the peninsula. The Bakassi region holds some of the most prospective shallow water oil exploration acreage remaining in West Africa. It is fully digitized with a website, a dedicated email address, Facebook handle, Twitter handle, Instagram, YouTube channel, WiFi, CCTV cameras, a Post Office Private Mail Bag, dedicated cell phone lines for complaints and feedbacks from the people, in addition to establishment of a marriage registry. We must tackle such fundamental issues”. Ita-Giwa, popularly known as Mama Bakassi, was taken round the office, installed with modern communication equipment, which the council boss, Iyadim said, can afford him the opportunity of knowing all that happens within and around his office and its adjoining surroundings, as well as events happening across the world. Cross River State’s littoral border council, the Bakassi Local Government Council, has made history in the entire oil region of Niger Delta as it built and equipped the first local government council smart office. The leaders of Nigeria and Cameroon endorsed a deal brokered by the United Nations last June, to withdraw Nigerian troops from the region within 60 days. The work is intended to serve as first hand exhaustive information on the live situation in the contested Bakassi Cameroon-Nigeria border region. Commissioning the chairman’s smart office, Florence Ita-Giwa, herself an indigene of Bakassi, described it as a landmark and historic achievement, because as the seventh local government chairman of Bakassi, Iyadim has performed impressively within his first 100 days in office. Ayade said, “The South South is in crisis. “We watch with melancholy, anger and pain as they sleep in subhuman living conditions. You can contact him on ben.eguzozie@businessamlive.com with stories and commentary. The ceremony was designed as a signal to the government of growing opposition to the transfer plan, and what residents say are inadequate proposals for those who wish to remain Nigerian citizens. Fraud at the Hague-Bakassi examines how the 9/11 attacks on America affected many countries around the world. Ayade stated this in Calabar, while receiving his Edo state counterpart, Godwin Obaseki to his office. By far, Bakassi Council, which was recreated from Akpabuyo Council by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, shortly after his administration handed over old Bakassi to Cameroon in 2007, suffers great privations with its people, mainly fishermen and subsistence farmers left without the most basic socio-economic facilities. Join us to get latest updates on business related news. The abduction of oil workers in the Niger Delta has become the main…, Nigeria has begun withdrawing its troops from the disputed Bakassi peninsula ahead of a United Nations-brokered deadline agreed with Cameroon. “By this singular attainment, which is the first to be recorded by any local government council in the Niger Delta region, the story of Bakassi and its people will be heard globally because the council now has a website that people can access and make contributions to its growth and development,” the chairman said. Most of the area's 300,000 residents have rejected these options, and would prefer the status quo to remain. The strength of the fundamentalist Islamic groups triggered the war on terror, which unnerved many countries around the globe. Femi Falana, a Lagos-based lawyer, who has filed a legal challenge to the proposed handover on behalf of the Bakassi people, says a declaration of independence is justified because, he says, the handover deal is illegal. He took dignitaries and media men round his office which was commissioned by Florence Ita-Giwa, former presidential adviser on National Assembly matters to former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. This Bakassi council is new. To counter this, President George W. Bush began the invasion of the two Arab countries Afghanistern and Iraq without approval on the latter. Nigerian troops are to begin pulling out of the area this month, paving the way for a full transfer within two years.