Tension As Cameroon Claims Part of Adamawa Community

There has been rising tension in Kwaja community and neighboring villages of Mubi LGA of Adamawa state over land encroachment by Cameroon.

Community members had staged a protest against the Cameroonian authorities over the erection of a demarcation sign claiming their lands.

While protesting, they urged the federal government to intervene in the matter, adding that they have been denied access to their farms.

Some of the placards they displayed held inscriptions that included, ‘Maintain ICJ position; ‘We agreed to the 1932 Thompson Marchand Declaration’; ‘We request for Protection from Nigeria Government’, reported Leadership.

While making a case for the community, one Dr. Ibrahim Kwaja said “In respect of the ICJ judgement, we stand to argue that our people from generation have never in any case spread beyond Nigerian boundary.

“We would not reluctantly continue to watch our community tortured by confiscation of our shelter and farmlands through watershed scenario which the community said is deliberate tendency to disrupt fact."

While the community alleged that the Cameroonian authorities erected the signs on February 14, 2022, the state government through the commissioner for information and strategies, Umar Garba said no formal complaint has reached the government.

The affected villages are the rich Irish potato cultivation areas of Kwaja, Kinga, Jugrma, Fajawa Girziya villages and area of Mubi local government.