Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Bola Ajibola at his book launch on Saturday blamed Nigeria’s loss of Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon on a treaty between Britain and Germany as well as the lack of understanding of past administrations in Nigeria.
Speaking at the book launch in his honour, Mr Ajibola gave reasons for thejudgement passed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as regards the lost land.
He said, “At the time that the British decided on ceding the entire area of Bakassi to Germany; it was not owned at that time by the British. It was that agreement that was being mainly relied upon by us here.”
He expressed doubts on any hope of re-claiming the lost land.
