Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has criticised the purported plans of the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration to send repentant terrorist to for foreign education.
Chief Clark, a minister of Information during the first Republic warned the National Assembly not to pass the bill seeking to allow foreign education for repentant insurgents.
The Convener, Pan Niger Delta Forumsaid that passing such a bill could be counter -productive , adding that the insurgents never believed in western education.
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Chief Clark made this known in an interview with PUNCH in Abuja stated that he agreed with the Chairman Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume , that such a bill could increase insurgency such that young people would become insurgents so that they would later claim to have repented for them to be given foreign education.
Thet outspoken Ijaw leader however, advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the military to rout insurgents and bring the war against insurgency to an end very soon.
He went further to note , “I am ashamed to hear this ; people who do not like western education , you are saying they should be sent abroad . To do what ?”
He called on the service chiefs to retire , adding that if they did not do so , Buhari should relief them of their duties.
It however remained to be seen if the National Assembly and president Buhari would put aside the propose bill.
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