President Buhari making a presentation to Paul Biya, President of Republic of Cameroon and his wife Mrs Chantel Biya at the end of their 2 day state visit to Nigeria at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja on 4th May 2016Cameroonian forces have killed at least 97 Nigerian fishermen in the oil-rich but impoverished Bakassi peninsula and the Nigerian parliament is investigating, BBC reported on Friday.
Reports said the killings happened last week when a Cameroonian paramilitary unit was enforcing a $300 (£230) fishing levy.
Nigerian Interior Minister Abdulrahman Dambazau accused Cameroon of breaching an agreement to protect its citizens, BBC said, adding that the Cameroonian government was yet to comment.
Cameroon took control of oil-rich Bakassi in 2008 after an International Court of Justice ruling, ending years of border skirmishes.
Survivors of the attack have been arriving back in Nigeria with injuries, reports the BBC’s Naziru Mikailu in the capital, Abuja.
Nigeria’s lower house of parliament resolved that it will investigate the reports in view of the 2005 Green Tea agreement between the two countries, to protect the citizens of the ceded areas from harm.
A five-year UN-backed transition period was put in place exempting the area’s residents, many of them Nigerian fishermen, from paying tax.
Nigeria earlier this week summoned the Cameroonian ambassador to lodge a formal protest note.