ASABA- NIGER –DELTA agitators, weekend, raised the alarm that the Federal Government was carrying out ethnic cleansing against the Ijaw people and deploying “shock awe technique” among others to overawe and silence those it considered opponents of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

SENATOR James Manager, PDP, Delta South, yesterday, condemned, in very strong terms, the raid of the Abuja home of nonagenarian, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, by the police, just as he called for an open and comprehensive investigation into the incident.

Elder statesman, Edwin Clark, says he has forgiven those that invaded his house over alleged stockpiling of firearms.

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark whose Asokoro residence was raided by the Police, for alleged possession of arms and ammunition, yesterday said that the sacking of those policemen who carried out the act was not enough if future occurrences must be averted as they must not be made to serve as scapegoats.

ELDER     statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, wrote a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, insisting that the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, and top police officers were behind the raid at his Abuja home, on Tuesday.

The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called for immediate sack of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotum Idris, over Tuesday’s illegal invasion and search of the House of elder statesmen and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark by the police.

Police on Wednesday listed names of those who took part in raiding the residence of former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark.

THE Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris,yesterday, dispatched a high-powered delegation of top police officers, led by a Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG, to meet with elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, following earlier search of his Abuja home by the police.

DISTURBED by what happened yesterday, following the raiding of the Asokoro residence of the former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark by the Police over alleged possession of arms and ammunition in his house, the Police Management team, yesterday visited the site for projects and came to a conclusion that they will get there.

National Secretary of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Dr. Alfred Mulade, Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to explain within the next 48 hours the reason(s) for the degrading treatment meted on one of the fathers of the nation, Senator Edwin Clark, by the Police, at his Abuja home.

ABUJA—South South leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, asked the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, to, as a matter of urgency, apologise to Nigerians and the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA,  over President Muhammadu Buhari’s elevation of national interest above the rule of law.

ABUJA—South South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, lampooned  the President of United States of America, USA, Mr Donald Trump, for describing President Muhammadu Buhari, who was his visitor at the  White House in April, as lifeless.

SOUTH-SOUTH leader, Senator Edwin Clark, yesterday, said he stood by the Senate President, Dr. Olukola Saraki, in his current travails.

South-South leader, Senator Edwin Clark, has commiserated with the families of late Finance Minister, Mallam Adamu Ciroma and late Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie over the demise of the late elder-statesmen.

Chief E. K. Clark, former Minister of Information, Senator of the Second Republic, National leader and convener of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF has said that for Nigerians to be free citizens of this country Nigeria must be restructured.