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Coastal News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pa. E. K Clark <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Port Harcourt_____A group, the Northern Compatriots in Southern Nigeria, has criticized Chief Edwin Clark, for opposing the proposed naval base project in Kano State, Punch newspaper reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement by its Regional Coordinator, South-South, Musbahu Saleh, NOCOMSON said Clark mocked Buhari and the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, for questioning the proposed project.
The group stated that the elder statesman also ridiculed Kano as a state in his open letter addressed to the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement reads in part:
\u201cPart of our submission is that Clark is unacquainted with the requisites of naval bases, how they are being operated in advanced countries in the world or he is not aware that the Navy had approved the establishment of naval bases in some other states besides Kano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut Clark singled out Kano State for his scathing attack, which we believe is yet another failed attempt at distracting the Navy from its concerted effort to keep Nigeria \u2018as one indivisible nation\u2019 and to sabotage the Buhari regime\u2019s efforts in containing the insecurity ravaging the country on various fronts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is instructive to note that even the Chief of Naval Staff, through the Chief of Training and Operations of the Navy, Rear Admiral Abraham Adaji, had explained to all the critics, particularly Chief Clark, the reasons behind the establishment of the base in Kano.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark had in an open letter to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), described as ridiculous the plan by the Federal Government to build a naval base in Kano.
He argued that the state is in the middle of the Sahel and has no water for the navigation of naval warships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Mangrovepen.ng<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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