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Seventeen Nigeria soldiers that were killed by
armed group at Okuama community in the Daily

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Local government area of Delta States have
been buried at Military Cemetery in Abuja,

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the Nigeria state capital, with President
Boller and me Tinovo conferring national honors on

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non posthumously and build educational scholarship to
the great children and the slave soldiers awaiting

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babies. President Tinebo also said houses
will be built for the family of the

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deceased soldiers anywhere of their choice within
the country. It will be recalled that

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the soldiers were modeled by armed group
at Okuama community on March fourteen, twenty

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twenty four, when the men in
uniform were said to be on a peace

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mission to address land dispute crisis between
Oka and Okunoba communities in the state.

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The first Lain officers were awarded the
honor of members of the Order of the

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Niger Monday one, thirteen SLAM soldiers
were honored with the Officers of the Federal

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Republic medals. According to President Bolla
Tinebu, who personally attended the burial ceremony

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at the military cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, each of the men now belonged to

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the Harland List of Southern men and
women who defended our country and protected their

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federal Nigerians, not minding the risks
to their own lives. They have all

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been awarded now a posthumous national honor. Four gallant officers have been accorded the

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award of Members of the Order of
Niger Munday. The thirteen courageous soldiers who

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also lost their lives have been awarded
the Officers of the Federal Republic Medals.

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It is now our duty to protect
the families of our departed heroes. The

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Federal government will provide housing in any
part of our country to each of the

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families of the four officers and thirteen
soldiers that were among them. The federal

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government has also approved scholarships to all
children of the deceased up to university level,

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including those who are in the room. The military. We appeal to

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you to within the next ninety five
is to ensure that all benefits of the

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departed are paid, Tinamus stated in
court. At the ceremony. The Chief

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of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taurid
Labager, said that that the seventeen troops

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of the Nigerian Army who were killed
in Delta States on March fourteen, twenty

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twenty four, left ten widows,
among which were three pregnant women as well

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as twenty one ofphans. Lieutenant General
Languager added that the three women were four

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five and Edmonds pregnant respectively, Your
excellency, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,

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the Okama killing has added to the
care of the Nigerian Army end by

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extension the Nigerias ten windows, three
of whom are four five and Edmonds pregnant,

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twenty one ofphans and many other dependents
which include parents. While commiserating with

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the families of these gallant soldiers,
I assure them that the Nightnigerian Army and

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the good people of this country will
not leave them in the cold. We

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shall know all within our power to
provide socle to them and preserve the memories

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of their departed loved ones. The
Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Lambadger stated

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in court in pursuit of the suspected
members of the armed group behind the soldiers

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killings, troops of the Nigerian military
in five trucks and flying roads on Tuesday,

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reportantly reded the Careboodle Country home of
the South South leader and former Federal

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Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark. According to the statements issued by the

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ninety seven years old one of the
most oldest statesmen currently in Nigeria, Edwin

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Clark, who is also the leader
of the Pan Niger Delta Forum. The

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armed soldiers numbering between thirty and forty
stormed his home on Saturday, March twenty

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top, twenty twenty four and used
their legs to break open all the doors

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in the compound, including the Ciaecurity
dot to his sitting room, which was

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locked because he resides in Abuja.
Since the mass killing of the soldiers,

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there have been reports of the military
reading and coming Delta communities as well as

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the deliboring Biosa states in search for
the killer of the soldiers. The Delta

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State Governor Sheriff of Arabori had won
monarchs in the state against protecting or giving

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cover to the killers. Edwin Clark, in the statement he personally signed and

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made available to journalists on Tuesday,
called for a commission of inquiry into the

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killings of the seventeen officers and soldiers
of the one hundred and eighty one amphibious

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battalion. At about six p m. On Saturday, the twenty third of

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March twenty twenty four, I got
a telephone call from someone who identified himself

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as the Commandment Officer of the Nigerian
Army Division in Port Harcourt. He said

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that a tracker of the Nigerian Army
had trapped one mister Vote, the community

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chairman of Okoma Community, whom the
army was looking for in respect of the

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killings of the severunting men of the
Nigerian Army, to a house in Regeli,

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and that the military men had broken
into the house rather sat it before

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the way informed that the house belonged
to me, that he was very sorry

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and apologizing to me on behalf of
the army in my huge way, and

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as a leader who is expected to
coldone as much as possible, I accepted

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his apology houlhatably, but told him
that I do not own a house in

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Regilly, that the house he is
referring to could be my father’s. I

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went on to sympathize with the Nigerian
Army over the grusome mother of the soldiers,

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an action I had condemned severally the
moments I heard of it. In

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the news. I assured him that
we would all work within our powers to

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awoid the security agencies with any available
information that would unravel the whole thing and

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bring the perpetrators to book. We
entered the discussion on a cordial load.

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It was not long after that I
was innovated with combs from my home Kervoodoo,

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telling me how the army had embedded
my country home by land and by

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air. I was told that the
ken in about five trucks loaded with armed

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soldiers numbering between thirty and forty.
Those in my house used their legs to

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break open all the doors in the
compound, including the security door to my

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sitting room, which was locked because
I reside in Abuja at the same time

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flying their drone within the premises.
Some of them went to the buildings behind

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the men house and also broke all
the doors that were locked. They marched

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out my staff living in those buildings, including lecturers at the university and men

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them sit on background. They also
broke into my led brother Ambassador, a

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power of Blessed Clark’s house, a
man who served this country internationally in various

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capacities, including as Nigeria’s permanent Representative
to the United Nations and Permanent Secretary Ministry

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of Foreign Affairs, as both of
us shared the same premises. They brought

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out his son almost naked as the
young man was taking a bath. When

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they storm the house, all their
phones were seized. The people had to

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identify themselves and told them whose house
it was before they asked for my telephone

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number, which the said they would
pass to their auga. Before the all

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departed, one would have expected that
at this juncture a coll could have been

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put to the Governor of Delta State
to inform him of what happened. I

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immediately called back the commanding officer to
tell him of the actions of his men,

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and he said he was aware and
that was why he called to apologize

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before continuing let me the Devil’s advocated
by stating that the army may not know

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that the house that went to in
Kervoodoo is my country home. But I

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feel very uncomfortable concluding this recent incident
with such a theory. When I recall

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handman of the tactical scot of the
Nigeria Police attached to the Office of the

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Inspector General of Police on the fourth
of September twenty eighteen, at about twelve

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bull stormed my house game Abuja in
a bus load fully armed. They came

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would a search warrant from a magistrate’s
court in Abuja bearing missus Helen Clark,

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but with the address of my house
on it that they had come to search

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the house, that they had information
that arms from the Niger Delta were being

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stopped out there. I identified myself
and told them that there was no one

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named Helen Clark living with me in
the house. I spoke with the then

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Deputy Inspector General of Police Operations,
but they insisted on carrying out their search.

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With a very clear conscience, I
allowed them to go ahead with their

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mission. They took their time to
search every space in the compound, including

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my bedroom, but found nothing incriminating. Edwin Clark statement reads in a lady

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when day they need in a more
digital way,