Tony Ene Asuquo’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Nigerian politician
Was Politician
From Nigeria
Type Politics
Gender male
Birth

1 January 1966

Death

22 August 2006
(aged 40 years)

Chief Tony Ene Asuquo (b. 1966 – d. August 22, 2006 near Calabar, Cross River State) was a leader of the Bakassi Movement for Self-Determination, which seeks for the independence of Bakassi. He came to international knowledge after his group announced its intention on August 6, 2006, to seek the independence of Bakassi from Nigeria, which had recently lost an International Court of Justice case over the territory to Cameroon and was preparing, under then-president Olusegun Obasanjo, to hand over control of the territory to the Cameroonian military per the Greentree Agreement.

Prior to his death, Ene challenged the Green Tree Agreement in a Supreme Court case which listed him alongside 6 others – Chief Orok Eneyo, Chief Emmanuel Effiong Etene, Ndabu Eyo Umo Nakanda, Emmanuel Okokon Asuquo, Ita Okon Nyong, and Richard Ekpenyong – as plaintiffs. The court case was won by the plaintiffs, but the federal government of Nigeria refused to recognize the judgment.

Ene died on August 22, 2006 en route to Calabar in a car accident in which 21 people, including Ene, died; he was travelling the Calabar-Itu road to petition to the state government of Cross Rivers for the release of Richard Ekpenyong, who was being detained by the State Security Service on the orders of then-governor Donald Duke.

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