evidence: But around 90 per cent of the population in the Bakassi peninsula, estimated at 200,000 to 300,000, are thought to be Nigerian fishermen and their families. [...] Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, a senator for Cross Rivers South state, to which Bakassi used to be a part, told Al Jazeera that the transfer could lead to conflict in the future. [...] Cameroon and Nigeria then signed an accord, known as the Green Tree agreement, in New York in 2006 during US-facilitated mediation talks, paving the way for Nigeria’s withdrawal from Bakassi.