Editing Bakassi (section)

===Nigerian withdrawal and low-level insurgency===
Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3,000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula. The remainder stayed under Nigerian civil authority for two more years.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4789647.stm | work=BBC News | title=Nigeria hands Bakassi to Cameroon | date=14 August 2006 | access-date=26 April 2010 | archive-date=10 June 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610085801/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4789647.stm | url-status=live }}</ref>

On 22 November 2007, the [[Senate of Nigeria|Nigerian Senate]] passed a resolution declaring that the withdrawal from the Bakassi Peninsula was illegal. The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order,<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7537020.stm | work=BBC News | title=Nigeria to appeal Bakassi delay | date=1 August 2008 | access-date=31 March 2010 | archive-date=5 August 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080805003329/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7537020.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> and set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it. Fishermen displaced from Bakassi were first settled in a landlocked area called New Bakassi, which they claimed was already inhabited and not suitable for fishermen like them but only for farmers.<ref>[http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90855/6464970.html "Nigerian High Court stops government on Bakassi handover"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205905/http://en.people.cn/90001/90777/90855/6464970.html |date=15 October 2015 }}, ''People's Daily Online'', 1 August 2008</ref> The displaced people were then moved to [[Akpabuyo]], and eventually established a new community of [[Dayspring, Nigeria|Dayspring]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Hasten PVC distribution, Bakassi indigenes beg INEC |date=15 February 2015 |newspaper=Nigerian Eye |url=http://www.nigerianeye.com/2015/02/hasten-pvc-distribution-bakassi.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903212513/http://www.nigerianeye.com/2015/02/hasten-pvc-distribution-bakassi.html |archive-date=3 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Despite the formal handover of Bakassi by Nigeria to Cameroon in 2006, the territory of Bakassi is still mentioned as part of the 774 local governments in Nigeria as embodied in the First Schedule, Part I of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm|title=Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria|website=www.nigeria-law.org|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=27 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727124236/http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> After the Nigerian 2015 general elections, Nigeria's 8th National Assembly still accommodates the Calabar-South/Akpabuyo/Bakassi Federal Constituency represented by Hon. Essien Ekpeyong Ayi of the [[People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)|People's Democratic Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/182259-list-new-house-of-reps-members-for-nigerias-8th-national-assembly.html|title=LIST – New House of Reps Members for Nigeria's 8th National Assembly |work=Premium Times Nigeria|date=2 May 2015|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=15 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815054138/https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/182259-list-new-house-of-reps-members-for-nigerias-8th-national-assembly.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the 2010s and 2020s, Biafran separatists, most importantly Biafra Nations League, still continue a low-level militant resistance against Cameroon in regards to Bakassi.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/300246/your-alliance-is-dead-on-arrival-biafra-nations-league-bn.html| title =Your alliance is Dead on arrival – Biafra Nations League, BNL, tells Buhari, Biya | work = The Nigerian Voice | date = 14 July 2021 | access-date =25 November 2021}}</ref>