Federal Government and Republic of Cameroon have remitted N2.3bn ($6 million) to the United Nations headquarters for the demarcation of the international boundaries between the two countries.

The money was paid to the Trust Fund account on the Nigeria-Cameroon Boundary Demarcation in respect of the 2,000km stretch from the Lake Chad region in the North to the Bakassi Peninsula in the South, as well as the maritime boundary in the Gulf of Guinea.

Acting Director-General of the National Boundary Commission, Mr Adamu Adaji, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Monday, also dismissed reports that the nation planned to cede 24 local government areas to a new nation to be known as Ambazonia.

There have been reports that Nigeria and Cameroon would donate part of their territories to form the new state identified as Ambazonia or UNO State being created by the United Nations.

But Adaji described the report as false, stating that the nation’s territorial boundaries were sacrosanct and not amenable “to any form of modification, alteration or adjustment as it is meant to exist as one indivisible nation.”

Giving an update on the Cameroon-Nigeria international boundary dispute which was settled by International Court of Justice on October 10, 2002, NBC director said that the various sub-commissions and committees had completed their assignments except the sub-commission on demarcation.

The statement read, “The Sub-commission on demarcation has constructed a total of 1,344 international boundary pillars along the Nigeria-Cameroon boundary between 2009 to date. There are approximately 1,354 remaining pillars to be built.

“President Muhammadu Buhari and President Paul Biya of Cameroon have approved and remitted $6m to the Trust Fund Account on the Nigeria-Cameroon Boundary Demarcation domiciled with the UN Headquarters in New York to further support the continuation of the demarcation”

NBC noted that the UN procurement department was on the verge of awarding a contract on Lot 5 for the construction of additional 355 pillars along the Gotel Mountains of the Nigeria-Cameroon International Boundary.

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