By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday started hearing in the charge of trans-border trafficking in suspected pirated products brought against Clement Orakwe by the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC).

A former Federal Commissioner for Information and National Leader of the Ijaw ethnic nationality, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, urged President Umaru Yar’Adua to direct the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta to call off the search for wanted militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, since the Federal Government had made known its intention to grant amnesty to militants.

Debunking the rumour making the round that Fenog was formed and is owned by one Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, the company in a press statement Sunday at its premises at Ugbuwangue, Warri, said “we hereby state categorically and unequivocally that the said Fenog Nigeria Limited was not formed or owned either fully, partially or in any respect by the said Government Ekpemupolo.”

“As indicated in my New year message of goodwill which was published as an Op-Ed piece on January 1 by the Guardian, I expected this year to provide the opportunity for comprehensive peace in the Niger Delta and a new lease of life for new growth in the regio and much progress around Nigeria.

According to Enewaridideke, “It is relevant in dramatizing the promptness of First Marine and Engineering Services Limited in the discharge of its corporate responsibility as a company operating in the Niger Delta just as it is very prompt in sending relief materials to the devastated Gbaramatu communities in Warri south-west council.”