Bakassi Peninsula: Government Steps Up Development

An all embracing development programme has been going on in the zone to make life better for the population.

The government of Cameroon has embarked on a series of development projects to enable the population of the Bakassi Peninsula get fully integrated into the country’s mainstream development and completely enjoy their belonging to the Cameroonian nation. The acceleration of development projects in Bakassi came after the Greentree Agreement between Cameroon and Nigeria on June 12, 2006 under the auspices of the United Nations Organisation for the development of the zone Cameroon got back from Nigeria following the International Court of Justice ruling of October 10, 2002 in the border conflict pitting Cameroon against Nigeria. Until the creation of the Bakassi Development Programme by the Prime Minister on August 21, 2017 which is still to go operational, government development projects in the area had been overseen by the Coordination and Follow-up Committee of Priority Projects to be realized in the Bakassi zone. Officials of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications are just back from Bakassi where two transmission antennas have been constructed in Jabane and Akwa. The Ndian Division Delegate of Communication, Adama Muye, said hopes that with the transmission antennas, the entire Bakassi peninsula would soon receive the State-owned Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) signals, as well as telephone network. CRTV signals, she said, are only received in Isangele and parts of Akwa. The giants development strides in Bakassi are noticeable in the educational domain. Schools both at the basic and secondary education levels have been created and built. There is a Government Teachers Training College in Akwa, SAR/SM in Akwa and spotted secondary and primary schools in all subdivisions of Bakassi. Road infrastructure still remains a teething problem but government is already...

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