*Demands immediate probe
*FG should set up an independent panel to probe into Akwa Ibom, CRS crisis -Prof Sam Amadi
A coalition of 46 Civil Society Organisations under the platform of Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness, CCLCA has called for establishment of a Presidential Special Investigation Panel to examine the circumstances surrounding the loss of approximately
780 hectares of Nigerian maritime waters within the Cross River
estuary.
Director General of Centre for Leadership and Citizens Awareness CCLCA, Dr Gabriel Nwambu while reading the recommendations in a communique revealed on Thursday in Abuja that: 
“The Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness (CCLCA), in strategic collaboration with 12 frontline Rights Organizations and
following a rigorous, expert-led fact-finding mission into the maritime boundaries of the Gulf of Guinea and the “mouth of water” delineations between Nigeria and Cameroon, our coalition has uncovered critical data regarding the ownership status between Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State.
He explained that: “This dialogue brings together 46 Civil Society Organizations to deliberate on these findings and propose a sustainable roadmap for regional peace and administrative clarity.
To this end six recommendations were made by the fact finding CSOs to President Bola TInubu.
The coalition said : “In view of the foregoing findings, the Civil Society coalition respectfully
recommends the following urgent actions:
1. Immediate Presidential review of the 2024 and 2025 Inter-Agency
Committee Reports on oil well verification and derivation
allocation affecting Cross River and Akwa Ibom States.
2. Immediate Presidential directive for the proper demarcation of
the Nigeria–Cameroon maritime boundary within the Cross River
maritime corridor in accordance with the 2002 ICJ judgment
map.
3. Establishment of a Presidential Special Investigation Panel to
examine the circumstances surrounding the loss of approximately
780 hectares of Nigerian maritime waters within the Cross River
Estuary.
4. Immediate forensic audit of all revenues and derivation payments
relating to the Ekanga and Zafiro transboundary oil fields.
5. Investigation into the alleged unilateral approval of ₦33 billion in
payments from the Federation Account without Presidential
authorization.
6. Urgent diplomatic engagement with Cameroon for the
negotiation of transboundary reservoir development
agreements for the 49 identified reservoir continuity wells within
OML 114.
7. Restoration and recognition of Cross River State’s littoral
status based on the geographic and legal status of the Cross River.
Also in his brief remarks one of the investigators, Prof Sam Amadi said the tour was mind boggling and there’s urgent need for the Federal Government to establish an independent panel to probe the various positions taken over the Cross River State and Akwa Ibom border dispute.
He said: “Our findings revealed that Cross River is indeed a littoral stare grossly marginalized.
