In a statement, Clark called out Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi and a former Zamfara State governor, Ahmad Yerima, for repeatedly demanding that the Federal Government should grant amnesty to bandits, just as the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua did to the Niger Delta agitators.
According to him, the Niger Delta agitators had legitimate demands contrary to the bandits whom he described as bloodthirsty villains.
The elder statesman also disagreed with a statement he said was credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, where he suggested that the amnesty programme has failed in Zamfara and other states, insisting rather that the programme has succeeded in Niger Delta.
Clark advised President Bola Tinubu to pay special attention to the survival of the amnesty programme in the Niger Delta which still has some phases.
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