Following the International Court of Justice ruling of 10 October 2002 that sovereignty over the Bakassi peninsula rested with Cameroon, SCAPO claimed that Bakassi was in fact part of the territory of Southern Cameroons.
Seguindo a orde do Tribunal Internacional de Xustiza do 10 de outubro de 2002 de que a soberanía sobre a península de Bakassi correspondía a Camerún, SCAPO reclamou que a península de Bakassi era de feito parte do territorio de Camerún do Sur.