The statement read in part: “The attention of the Leadership of the Delta State House of Assembly has been drawn to newspaper publication of July 15, 2009 insinuating impeachment scare in the state Assembly over an alleged DESOPADEC largesse.

“ BLT then sold AC to the people, and if you study the pattern of voting, as shown at the election tribunal judgments, you will see that the votes that gave AC victory were from Edo South. That was a result of BLT campaign and its mobilization of people to register during the registration exercise.

“So, to that extent, BLT did not fail on its objective, even though the

The eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said the children left the landlady’s apartment unnoticed by anyone, adding that the children fell into the unused open septic tank that was directly in front of the landlady’s apartment.

Spokesman of the task force, Colonel Rabe Abubakar told Vanguard that the claim by MEND that the task force had dispatched seven gun boats with heavily armed troops to a militant camp around the boarders of Delta and Ondo states was not true.

Coordinator of the Joint Media Campaign Centre of the task force, Colonel Rabe Abubakar confirmed to Vanguard in an interview yesterday, that the operation has been called off as a result of the proclamation of amnesty for militants by the Federal Government