N’Delta leader, Clark writes Buhari

Former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, where he called on the president to ensure he deals decisively with anyone found to have contributed to the level of corruption in the country that has led to stagnation and economic crunch.

He warned that if President Buhari fails to deal severely with those who ruined Nigeria over the years, Nigeria as a country would sink.

Clark, a staunch supporter of former President Goodluck Jonathan during the run-up to the last presidential election stated this in a six-page letter to Buhari which was read to journalists yesterday at his Asokoro residence, Abuja.

The south-south leader urged him to as a matter of urgency appoint a new Chairman for the Amnesty Programme as a replacement for the immediate past Chairman of the programme, Chief Kingsley Kuku, adding that he would be a sad man if the Amnesty programme fails.

According to the Elder statesman, the President should know what it means to Nigeria as a country to have peace in the Niger Delta, just as he stressed that quick appointment of a new Chairman even in acting capacity would help stop the imminent disintegration of the programme that has kept the peace in the Niger Delta.

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The Ijaw leader said that the vacuum already created following the absence of Kuku’s successor was creating tension and if not managed immediately, it would lead to that era when the activities of the militants in the creeks, contributed to crude oil fall to about 7,000 barrel per day, compared to the present situation of 2.5 million barrel per day, adding that the problem with the programme at the moment, was lack of an authority to operate the account of the programme.

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