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  • Edwin Clark: I got information from a taxi driver, says Informant

    The Informant who gave Police information that arms and ammunition are in the house of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark said he got the information from a taxi driver.

    The 45 year old informant, Ismail Yakubu is a council member at the palace in the district head office of Waru, FCT.

    Yakubu said he gave the police the information because the police always tell residents to report any suspicious movement.

    The informant disclosed this at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday when he was paraded.

    Narrating how he got the information that arms and ammunition were in Chief Clark’s house, he said: “I hail from Waru village in Apo resettlement and I am 45 years.

    “I am a council member of the palace in the district head office in Waru.

    “I appreciate the time given to me. The point is that I was going to Asokoro on Monday exactly around 4pm. I was called to come and receive a message at the back of ECOWAS. I took a taxi from Apo roundabout.

    “When I got to the back of ECOWAS according to the description of the man that called me to come and receive the message, I saw a street called Haile Celestial street.

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    “That was the street I was going. There is a Catholic Church uncompleted building there and that was where the man asked me to meet him.

    “When we were on our way, I was in front and two other passengers were in the car. I noticed that the whole street was blocked and then I began to ask questions to know what was happening.

    “It was then the taxi man said the street is where Niger Delta people live. I probed further to know why the road was blocked and rowdy. He then pointed out to me to see the truck entering the compound, the compound was House 43.

    “The truck was a white Hilux van and it was sealed. The driver said the road was blocked because the van was trying to enter the compound.”

    He continued: “The driver said the van was filled with ammunition. As an indigene of FCT and hearing the information. I thought to myself that why ammunition in FCT because residents of FCT are peace-loving people. I said I cannot take that. I asked how sure he was and he said he was very sure and that was why the whole area was blocked.
    “That was the same point I dropped from the taxi and I paid him his money. I carried my phone and called the person who called me to come and receive message.

    “The message the person brought was a nylon bag containing Irish potatoes because he came from Jos. I told him what the taxi man told me and being Monday, had it being I had access to STS office, I would have reported that issue immediately on Monday.

    “On Tuesday morning, I met Inspector Sada and I narrated what I saw. I told him that I got the information from a taxi man. I told him the address and they went there to investigate.

    On how he felt about the turnout of things, he said : “The Police said when you see a suspicious movement, you should always report to the Police. I don’t think I have done wrong in such doing.”

    Yakubu also said he did not see the residents of the house offload arms and ammunitions.

    The Force Spokesman, Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood said the IG directed the immediate detention of the four police personnel that carried out the unauthorised search.

    The personnel of the Force who carried out the search are; ASP David Dominic, Inspector Godwin Musa, Inspector Sada Abubakar and Inspector Yabo Paul.

    Moshood said the officer who led the team has been queried adding that the three Inspectors are currently  undergoing orderly trial for the appropriate punishment to be meted out to them.

    “There are procedures to be followed before executing the search warrant and the lapses is on their side and that is why they are being investigated.”

    He however noted that the police has the statutory rights to execute a duly obtained search warrant in any premises where it has actionable intelligence or information that incriminating items or exhibits used to commit crime or about to be used for criminality with the aim of recovering them to prevent the Commission of such crime.

    On the likely punishment that would be meted if found guilty, Moshood said: “Those who will find them guilty will give the punishment they feel they deserve.

    “For the Inspector and Rank and File; the adjudicating officer will take care of that and the punishment would be subject upward or downward depending on the culpability and involvement of such an officer but for a superior Police officer, after the query, the Force disciplinary committee will listen and cross-examine an officer for whatever query he has been issued.

    “The punishment would then be finalised and passed to Police Service Commission who are the final determinant in the matter.”

    Moshood also said the informant would be arraigned in an undisclosed Abuja court for giving false information that misled Police action in the matter.

  • IGP Idris begs Edwin Clark

    The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has apologised to elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark over an unauthorised raid carried out by some policemen on his house in Abuja.

    Idris, who has already detained the informant and the four policemen who carried out the illegal raid, sent a delegation, led by a DIG and some commissioners to convey his apology.

    The team was led by DIG Habila Joshak, who is in charge of operations at the headquarters.

    A statement by Police spokesman Jimoh Moshood said Idris was not aware and did not also authorise the search.

    He said Joshak “apologized on behalf of the Nigeria Police Force and the IGP for the misconduct of the said Police Personnel and the attendant embarrassment the search has caused on the Elder Statesman and his family”.

    “The delegation was received by Chief Edwin Clark and the apology was accepted by him”, Moshood said.

    Moshood said the the four policemen, after investigation, will be tried within the Force Disciplinary Procedures before appropriate punishments are meted out to them.

    “The IGP has directed the immediate parade of the informant(Suspect) on Wednesday 5th September, 2018 in the presence of the press and the public, before his prompt arraignment and prosecution in Court”, he added.

  • PANDEF, IYC condemn Police raid on Clark’s residence

    …Group issues 48-hour ultimatum to F.G to explain action

     

    Condemnation has continued to trail the reported storming of the Asokoro, Abuja home of Ijaw national leader and convener of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark.

    Chief Clark’s home was reportedly ransacked on Tuesday by men of the Nigeria Police, allegedly on the instructions of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris.

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    Condemning what it described as a humiliation and traumatization of the 91-year old former Federal Commissioner of Information, PANDEF, in a statement issued by its National Secretary, Dr Alfred Mulade, gave the federal government a 48-hour ultimatum to provide an explanation to the action of the police.

    “PANDEF condemns this very barbaric act which is tantamount to state terrorism and total disregard for his fundamental human rights and complete  disregard for established  traditional respect for age and national  service.

    “PANDEF insists that Chief EK Clark remains a symbol of our national unity and a leading voice in our search for equity, fairness and justice.  PANDEF therefore strongly condemns this unwarranted   action against one of the country’s leading statesmen by the Nigerian Police.

    “We hereby   call on the Federal  Government  to thoroughly investigate and offer  explanation,  within  the next  48 hours, this barbaric action against one of the fathers of this nation, in such a brazing manner,” said.

    In its own reaction, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the security agencies to order before they plunged the nation into an irreversible crisis, even as it called on all other relevant stakeholders in the Nigerian project to come to the aid of the country.

    According to a statement signed by its President, Oweilaemi Pereotubo, democracy cannot survive without opposing views, noting that a person of Chief Clark’s status and contribution to the Nigerian project should not be expected to be cowed I to silence when he has views to express.

    “Relevant stakeholders need to rise in defence of our hard earned democracy. President Buhari should call his overbearing security agencies to order before they plunge the country into an unmitigated crisis. There can be no democracy where there is no dissent voice.

    “Mr. President should accept that our democracy cannot exist without opposition elements to his government. Chief Clarke is an elder statesman, his views on national issues needs to be appreciated by the government of the day instead of being witch hunting,” said.

  • FIFA ban: Clark calls for Sports Minister’s sack

    Edwin Clark has called for sack of the Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mr Solomon Dalung, for allegedly discrediting Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for recognising Amaju-Pinnick-led Board of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF).

    The elder statesman Clark, who made the call in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said reports of “disloyalty and parochial utterances’’ credited to Dalung in various media reports were embarrassing.

    According to Clark, for the minister to discredit the very patriotic and timely intervention of Osinbajo as Acting President, to recognise the Amaju Pinnick-led Board of the NFF is unacceptable.

    The elder statesman further said there was no sense in the minister of sports discrediting a laudable action that saved Nigeria from ban by the world football governing body FIFA.

    “This was an action taken by the Acting President at a very critical stage of our football history to avert FIFA’s ban on Nigeria.

    “Osibanjo restored to the global platform of honour, an action commended by all and sundry, locally and internationally.

    “If this action was not taken by the Acting President at the time he did, it will have been a disgrace and a setback for Nigerian football.

    “But here is Mr Dalung, Nigeria’s Minister of Sports, who unfortunately, thinks and behaves differently.’’

    Clark said the action of the vice president called for commendation and not condemnation.

    “Instead of rejoicing and towing the line of the government under which he is serving, he has unfortunately showed total disrespect and disloyalty for the Acting President and the government in his open show of ignorance and incompetence.’’

    Clark quoted Dalung as saying, “as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria who took oath of office to defend the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I will prefer to stand with the Rule of Law, instead of the opinion of men.

    “We are a constitutional democracy and the doctrine of separation of powers is the foundation of democratic experience.

    “Therefore, the Rule of Law is the only mechanism that guarantees liberty and freedom of citizens.

    “This administration is elected on the change mantra, meaning that impunity has no accommodation anywhere.

    “So, Nigerians must learn to believe and practice the doctrine of the Rule of Law. I believe we shall overcome this if we remain within the confines and dictates of the laws of our country.’’

    Clark noted that the decision taken by Osibanjo was well informed, adding that, he is a Prof. of Law, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice of Lagos State.

    He stressed that Osibanjo had for decades, taken the oath of Office to defend the same Constitution and the Rule of Law.

    “I also swore to the same oath when I qualified as a lawyer 53 years ago. What is the minister talking about defending the constitution and obeying the rule of law?

    “After reading what the Honourable Minister says, one is left to wonder in whose interest he is serving, because it is obviously not in the interest of government and the Nigerian people.

    “He never showed any concern whether Nigeria was banned by FIFA or not, except his own interest.

    “For instance, the minister knows that Mr Chris Giwa had been banned for five years by FIFA, yet, he put him on the list of a 15-man delegation to FIFA in Switzerland.

    “Another clear case is when Mr President directed the Department of State Services (DSS), to flush out Mr Chris Giwa and his subordinates from the Glass House, Dalung was not only believed to have encouraged Giwa’s return.

    “He is reported to have facilitated the resurrection of the leadership feud within the NFF, which undermines the great successes of the Amaju Pinnick-led NFF on the nation’s towering football engagements,’’ he said.

    According to Clark, in the overall interest of the future of football, and for Nigeria to maintain its position as the largest country in Africa, the Ministry of Sports is not the place for the likes of Mr Dalung.

    He noted that given Nigeria’s present status, disloyalty, indiscipline, arrogance and mediocrity should not be condoned in any area of public service.

    “The legal profession which I have cherished and belong to investigate all my adult life cannot be ridiculed by certain persons who are bereft of character and honour required of public officers.

    “One should expect that the minister should strive to see how permanent peace will be restored to Nigerian Football administration, particularly now that he has set up a reconciliation committee.

    “He should not be personifying the disagreement within the NFF, but seek out of court settlement in Jos High Court, where the Supreme Court referred the matter to.

    “The Supreme Court did not give any definite judgment in favour of anybody and therefore, it was very improper of the minister to drag in the Supreme Court in his offensive statement.

    “It must be emphasised that, the unity of Nigeria is very paramount, and football is one of the contributory factors to this unity,’’ he said.

    Clark said “as an elder statesman of 91, an incurable football enthusiast, and having remained so since my youth, and my days as a student in England, I was a strong supporter of Manchester United, until I returned to Nigeria in 1965.

    “I continued to show my interest in football and other sporting activities from primary to secondary school levels when I was appointed Commissioner for Education in the old Midwest State.

    “Then, football and other sporting activities were domiciled in the Youth Directorate which was directly under my supervision as Commissioner for Education.

    “It was our policy then to develop football and other sporting activities and our footballers and athletes excelled in all competitions.

    “In order to develop sporting activities, therefore, the School of Physical Education was established at Afuze, now Michael Imoudu College of Physical Education, Afuze in the then Owan Division, now Owan Local Government Area of Edo.

    “This is what I expected a Sports Minister who knows his onions to concentrate on.

  • Restructuring: Southern leaders barred from flying to Makurdi

    Group says government descending into military dictatorship

    They were prevented from flying for security reasons – airport Commandant

     

    Some members of the Southern and Middle Belt Forum (southern flank) led by Chief Edwin Clark, were on Monday stopped from traveling to Makurdi to attend the Middle Belt conference on restructuring.

    Addressing a press conference in Abuja after they were disallowed from flying, the group said they were told they could not fly to Makurdi because of security reasons even after securing a charter aircraft.

    Speaking on behalf of the group, the Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, John Nwodo, said the elders spent about five hours at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja trying to obtain clearance to make the journey but were refused by the Commandant of the Makurdi Airport whose name was given as Lt. Commander A. Audu.

    He said: “We arrived in time for our flight today at 12 noon; the airport commandant disallowed us from flying and said we needed to go and get permission to land in Makurdi.

    “We consider this fundamental infringement on our democratic rights of freedom of movement and freedom of association. There is nothing in our law precluding us from moving to wherever we like, from holding an opinion in so far as we do not breach any law in Nigeria.

    “What has happened to us today expresses a lot of doom for fundamental human rights in our country, for the free exchange of ideas as unavoidable instruments of achieving growth and development of our polity.

    “We deprecate the treatment that we were given today, which treatment prevented us from physical joining our brethren in the Middle Belt in a common view which we all hold, a very patriotic view, which we think will be the only way to guarantee the future of our country.” he said.

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    Nwodo, who joined other southern leaders to watch the live transmission of the conference in Chief Clark’s residence, said that they wanted to show solidarity with the Middle Belt people who he said had been supportive to the forum.

    He added: “Please publicize this for many reasons. One, the teeming crowd that you saw on television in the Middle Belt is our brethren who showed us solidarity in other zonal summits. The fact that we were barred from showing them this solidarity is bound to hurt them.

    “Through this press conference, we want to express our solidarity with them. We want them to know that we are one and the same in our views of the restructuring of the Federation” he said

    The group also faulted the recently signed Executive Order 006.

    He said “Secondly, to deprecate this new tendency. Not too long ago, the President signed into law an Executive order, which gives him the right to seize people’s assets. This is almost like a military government. And we think that this is an intrusion into the principles of separation of powers in our country.

    “It is the responsibility of the legislature to make law, of the executive to implement the law and the judiciary to interpret the law. I do not think that Section 5 of the Constitution gives the President such Executive authority to make laws.

    “The right to property is a fundamental right in a democracy. It cannot be expropriated here without decision of the court. What has happened to us today shows a continuing tendency to slide into a dictatorship in a democratic government. That is condemnable.” he stated

    Asked if the forum suspected any deliberate attempt to sabotage their participation at the Makurdi summit or for other technical reasons, Mr. Yinka Odumakin said “The first jet that was to take us started this funny game of saying that there was a bad weather to Makurdi and that they could not fly. Until we got to other airlines and I asked what’s bad about the weather. They said they were ready to take us.

    “As we were about to make payments, they now said there was landing permit issues. They called the commandant in Makurdi, who said they should send application.

    “The Chief of Staff to the Benue State Governor said we should fax the application to him and to the commandant. We waited at the airport for hours. Eventually, the Chief of Staff had to contact the commandant in Makurdi and was told that the landing permit requested by the first airline was still on their table. At that stage, General C. Ariyo Niege, a veteran ex-soldier, who was head of Nigerian military forces in Sudan, went to the commandant in Abuja.

    Speaking on his encounter with the commandant in Abuja, Niege said he was told they would not be able to fly to Makurdi due to security reasons.

    He said “I pleaded with him that we were having issues in flying to Makurdi for the summit and he told me that for security reasons civilian aircraft were no longer allowed to fly into Makurdi airport.”

  • Clark to Buhari: Declare state of emergency in North East

    Clark to Buhari: Declare state of emergency in North East

    Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare full state of emergency in the North East.

    Clark said this would enable the security agencies to finish the fight against Boko Haram terrorists unhindered.

    Speaking on the recent adoption of over 100 students from Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, the former federal commissioner for information argued that anything short of full declaration of state of emergency in the North East would not yield the expected result.

    He declared that a state of emergency where a sole administrator is appointed for at least six months would do the work.

    He said a sole administrator unlike a political leader would take decisive action on the matter.

    Clark described the abduction as a national embarrassment because it affects all irrespective of party affiliation.

     

  • 2019: We will vote for candidate that supports restructuring – Ijaw leaders

    2019: We will vote for candidate that supports restructuring – Ijaw leaders

    Ijaw leaders said on Tuesday they would cast their votes for a presidential candidate that genuinely believes and supports restructuring in next year’s election.

    The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seriake Dickson, Mr. Francis Agbo, said restructuring was one of the decisions reached at a meeting held in the country home of the foremost Ijaw Leader and elder statesman, Edwin Clark, in Kiagbodo, Burutu local government area of Delta State.

    Dickson was among the leaders that attended the meeting.

    Others were – Clark, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, Alabo Tonye- Graham Douglas, Chief Brodericks Bosimo Ambassador God knows Igali, Prof. Dagogo Fubara, Prof. Nimi Briggs, Prof. Joe Ajienka, Prof. C. Dime and Prof. Steve Azaiki.

    Also present at the meeting were – Dr. Pius Sinebe, Chief Wellington Okrika, Bayelsa State Commissioner for Culture and Ijaw Affairs, Dressy Dressman, top government functionaries and other Ijaw leaders.

    The leaders urged President Muhammadu Buhari to demonstrate political will in ensuring that the country is restructured before the 2019 elections.

    They insisted on a restructured country within the context of a corporate, united and peaceful Nigeria that guarantees equal rights for all.

    According to them, only restructuring could guarantee peace in the country.

    Dickson was quoted as saying that the 2019 election would be a referendum on restructuring with its derivatives of resource control, devolution of power, state police and fiscal federalism.

    He said: “Restructuring is about our existence as a people. It is not about APC or PDP. We as Ijaws want a Nigeria that is fair, just and equitable and this is what restructuring represents.”

    The leaders also set up a committee to present a coherent position on restructuring from the Ijaw point of view.

  • Cattle colonies: No Niger Delta land will be used for such – PANDEF

    Cattle colonies: No Niger Delta land will be used for such – PANDEF

    The South-South region of the country has frontally rejected the proposed cattle colonies being proposed by the federal government as its solution to the herdsmen menace, saying no land in the region would be available for such.

    Leaders, elders, opinion molders, traditional rulers and political leadership of the region, at a conference held on the platform of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum ( PANDEF ), in the country home of Ijaw national Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, in Kiagbodo, Burutu council area of Delta state yesterday, reached the conclusion.

    Besides the rejection of federal government’s cattle colonies plan, the conference also frowned at the continued neglect of the oil-rich region by the current administration, particularly the refusal of government to address the 16-point demand presented to it since November 2016.

    The conference, which was chaired by the Convener of the PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, expressed solidarity with the people and government of Benue state over the bloody New Year day massacre, reportedly carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen, to which more than 70 lives were lost.

    It, however, advised the federal government to handle the festering Fulani herdsmen’s issue as a delicate one, admonishing further that the issue of livestock farming should be situated in the commercial realm where it belongs.

    “Expressed solidarity with the people of Benue State and other parts of the country where communities have suffered untold menace and brutality in the hands of Fulani herdsmen.

    Rejected the idea of setting up Cattle Colonies around the country and advised the federal government to handle this sensitive matter with tact and treat the issue of animal husbandry as commercial transaction which should be left in the hands of relevant stakeholders.

    Emphasized that no Niger Delta land will be available for such cattle colonies”, the conference said.

    On the situation of things in the region, besides the displeasure expressed on the refusal of government to attend to issues concerning the region, it also called for the sustenance of the Amnesty Programme, which it said had the capacity to keep the region peaceful.

    “Noted with concern the slow pace with which the Federal Government continues to handle matters pertaining to the Niger Delta, especially the implementation of the 16-point agenda submitted since the 1st of November 2016.

    “Condemned, in particular, the continued refusal of international and national oil companies to show presence in the Niger Delta, including moving their operational and administrative offices to the region. Noted also with, grave concern, the continued delay in the completion of the East-West road and the underfunding of its implementation.

    “Expressed worry over the fact that plans are being concluded to issue licenses to modular refineries without corresponding participation from stakeholders in the Niger Delta region.

    This notwithstanding, calls on various Niger Delta peoples and communities, especially, the youths and various aggrieved groups to continue to exercise patience and allow PANDEF and its other political leaders to continue dialogue with the federal Government.

    “Calls on Niger Delta Political leaders and leadership of intervention agencies such as NDDC, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to show greater accountability in managing resources allocated for various programmes.

    “Reaffirms its confidence that the Presidential Amnesty Programme is a veritable tool for maintaining peace in the region. Took decision to send high delegation to the FG to discuss issues pertaining to the Amnesty programme and its continuation”, the conference concluded.

  • Police, DSS seal off venue of PANDEF’s Assembly in Port Harcourt

    Police, DSS seal off venue of PANDEF’s Assembly in Port Harcourt

    Fully armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services ( DSS ), early morning today, sealed off Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt, Rivers State’s venue of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum’s ( PANDEF ) General Assembly, allegedly because of security threat.

    Also sealed were all the roads leading to the five-star hotel, owned by the Rivers state government, with the accredited delegates from all the nine crude oil and gas-rich states stranded.

    After waiting for many hours at the hotel’s entrance, with none of the security personnel ready to speak, it was gathered through the telephone from one of the leaders of PANDEF, who would not want his name in print, that PANDEF’s leader, Chief Edwin Clark, 90, who arrived Port Harcourt on Tuesday and lodged in Hotel Presidential, is currently presiding over an emergency meeting of some of the leaders the forum inside the hotel.

    The source disclosed that at the end of the meeting, a communique would be issued, in order to know the next line of action.

    PANDEF’s general assembly in Port Harcourt that was aborted by security personnel, was to elect officers of the forum at the national, states and local governments, as well as elect members of PANDEF’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Advisory Committee and ratify the constitution of the forum, among others, with PANDEF said by its leaders at Monday’s news conference in Port Harcourt to be on the same level with Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF).

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  • No rift between Jonathan and Dickson – Clark

    No rift between Jonathan and Dickson – Clark

    Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, said on Thursday that recent reports of a rift between former President Goodluck Jonathan and Bayelsan State Governor, Seriake Dickson, are mischievous.

    Clark, who is the National Leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), stated this in a statement in Abuja.

    He said reports making the rounds on the rift were meant to cause disaffection between the duo and create tension in Bayelsa.

    He said: “In the past few days, the media had been inundated with stories about a so-called rift between a former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the Governor of Bayelsa.

    “As a father to these important Nigerians, I categorically want to state that these reports are the handiwork of fifth columnists.

    “It is the handiwork of persons who are deliberately out for mischief by creating disaffection between these two sons of mine.

    “As we all know, Jonathan has continued to maintain a fair level of dignified silence as expected of a statesman and he is working assiduously towards ensuring peaceful development of this country.

    “Lately, he became an acclaimed global citizen and international statesman with presence in almost all the continents.

    “This is obviously a source of envy and discomfort to some who are now the purveyors of these stories of supposed rift.’’

    The elder statesman noted that Dickson on his part was working assiduously to see to the development of the state and had no time for such frivolities.

    “As can be attested by Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd),  Prof. Wole Soyinka, acclaimed writer, and Prof. J. P. Clark, following our recent journey to Bayelsa, Dickson is doing a great job.

    “He is investing heavily in the education sector. He had declared a State of Emergency in Education since 2012.

    “So, the revolution taking place today with free education at both primary and secondary levels with free boarding and free uniforms are unprecedented.

    “With such footprints and other developmental strides, these stories of rift are deliberately intended at distracting him.

    “They are also meant to create tension in a state that is today adjudged as one of the most peaceful in the country.

    “All through our stay of about one week, no incident of security threat or violence was recorded.

    “Also during the period, PANDEF held its General Assembly, which was attended by over 150 delegates from across the Niger Delta Regionm,’’ Clark added.

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