ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the solicitor who was responsible for assembling and managing the legal team which argued Nigeria's case on Bakassi before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between the years 1994 and 2002. It refers generally to 'International litigation', but its focus will be the Bakassi case and the challenges presented by that case. The chapter considers a Nigerian patrol opened fire on a Cameroonian vessel in waters off the Bakassi Peninsula and then tries to exploit the situation to shift the blame onto Cameroon, On 16th May 1981. It examines the immediate run-up of the case to the ICJ commenced in 1993, when Nigeria, whose Head of State at the time was General Sani Abacha, sent in some 3,000 troops to secure the Bakassi area for local Nigerians. The chapter refers that the case before the Court began, as we have seen, early in 1994, shortly after General Sani Abacha, Nigeria's Head of State, sent the army into Bakassi.
