The National Boundary Commission has begun fresh moves to end the lingering boundary dispute between Abia and Akwa Ibom states.
According to The Punch, the commission summoned officials of the two states to a roundtable meeting in Abuja.
The Director General, National Boundary Commission, Adamu Adaji, noted that the boundary in dispute covered 275 kilometres in length between the Old Cross River and Imo interstate boundary areas.
He added that the boundary has “tripoints’’ at Abia, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River in the north and Abia, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers in the south.
A tripoint or tri-border area is a geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or subnational entities meet.
He said, “Since taking over the boundary definition process, the commission has carried out various inconclusive field tracing and provisional demarcation exercises on the boundary.
“The challenges have always been the dearth of clear delimitation instruments or the non-clarity of them where they exist.
“Other challenges include the deliberate efforts to misinterpret the documents by stakeholders or their failure to accept them.
“Fortunately, we have succeeded in identifying sectors of the boundary that were not defined by the Decree line—the sectors in dispute as well as the sectors that the two states agreed on as their areas of consensus,’’ Adaji said.
