The recent recommendations on oil and gas wells in the Niger Delta by a panel set up by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) have given fresh momentum to the long-running dispute over oil wells involving Cross River and Akwa Ibom states .
For Governor Bassey Otu, the report has not just reopened an old conversation, it has reignited what he describes as a fight for justice.
For Cross River, the story goes back to the painful aftermath of the Bakassi Peninsula saga. When Nigeria ceded Bakassi to Cameroon in 2002 following the ruling of the International Court of Justice, the ripple effects were enormous. In the course of boundary adjustments that followed, 76 oil wells were ceded to Akwa Ibom State, leaving Cross River with none. See More/Details