LESS than 24 hours after some people, who claim to be indigenes of the ceded Bakassi peninsular, had protested in Cross River State over the ownership of 76 oil wells in the area, the people of Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have strongly condemned the protest, describing it as uncalled for and part of an orchestrated propaganda aimed at confusing some members of the public.

On Thursday, a  group of people reportedly staged a peaceful demonstration in Calabar, Cross River State capital, over the disputed 76 oil wells on which the Supreme Court is billed to deliver judgment on July 10, 2012.

Reacting to the protest on Friday in Uyo, a socio-cultural group in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, the Ibaka Development Organisation (IDO), observed that the demonstration by the purported indigenes of Bakassi was a cheap blackmail sponsored to whip sentiments ahead of the Supreme Court ruling on the case instituted by the Cross River State government.

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