FG unfair to Ijaw ethnic nationality — Clark

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By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa—Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, said the Federal Government had been unfair to the Ijaw ethnic nationality of the Niger Delta.

Clark, a former Federal Commissioner for Information, lamented that the time had come for the Federal Government to address the issue of long years of neglect to which the Ijaw had been subjected by the Nigerian state.

EDWIN CLARK

Clark spoke while hosting Governor Seriake Dickson, who led a high-powered delegation of Bayelsa government officials and Ijaw leaders to his Kiagbodo country home in Delta State, on a New Year visit.

He urged the Federal Government to have the right attitude to address the Ijaw factor in the Nigerian federation, this year.

“This New Year will touch the heart of the Federal Government that the Ijaw people have been neglected for too long. Something has to be done for them. We…



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