Over 2000 Nigerians who previously lived in Bakassi Peninsula and were forcefully ejected by Cameroonian security agents on 7th March 2013 have appealed to the Federal Government to relocate them to their ancestral home.
The displaced persons decried the deplorable state they live in as they have no shelter and so are forced to sleep in a school.
One of the displaced persons, Mary Effiong described the situation as ‘hard’.
“Life is hard, life is so hard. Even when the government is trying, we cannot meet up again in life. We are suffering, our children are really suffering
What we really need is for the government to really support us and our children and we want to go back to where we came from,” she added in tears.
The camp leader, Etim Okon credited the Cross River state government for her efforts in ensuring that they are provided with food.
However, he said that food is not what they need but proper resettlement in their ancestral home.
A member of the Presidential Committee on displaced persons, Abba Moro, assured the people that the committee is doing its best to ensure that the displaced persons are resettled soon.
