Edo Riverine Communities A PRESS RELEASE BY THE COALITION OF EDO RIVERINE COMMUNITIES ON MEDIA ATTACKS AGAINST THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PRESIDENTIAL AMNESTY PROGRAM The coalition joins the plethora of progressive voices across Niger Delta to state unequivocally that enemies of the region should desist from their dastardly and inglorious acts of trying to pull Dr. Dennis Otuaro down. Majority of the people of the Niger Delta know Dr Dennis Otuaro as a quintessential man for the job. He is a thoroughbred product of struggle of emacipation for the rights of our people. A fine gentleman and leader of repute. His credentials speak for him and that's why the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria deemed it fit to appoint him. We made bold to say that since the the program came started,none of the persons that occupied the office come close to him academic wise ,capacity and deep knowledge of the issue vis a vis the struggle . For a group of persons to be calling for his sack speaks n
By EgbemaVoice, Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has said the state under his leadership, is the turn of the masses to enjoy the dividends of democracy. Otti, who made the declaration while hosting a delegation of Course 17, Syndicate 2 of the National Institute for Security Studies, Abuja, at Government House Umuahia, said he was on a mission to make the masses and not just a handful of privileged politicians, have a taste of good governance. He said politicians who have presided over the affairs of the state since the return of democracy in 1999, have helped themselves enough with the common patrimony. The Governor told his audience that his recent decision to wipe off the backlog of pension arrears owed retirees since 2014, was a demonstration of his passion for the masses, who had been shortchanged by the ruling elite. He said, “never again shall Abia pensioners be owed their pension.” He added that he had also directed that they be paid along with workers on the 28th o