Prominent Ijaw leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has urged the federal government to have a rethink about its plans to site a Naval base in Kano State.
Clark in an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari viewed the plan as a wrong investment of scarce resources and called on the government to have a rethink.
In his argument, the elder statesman said a naval base in a desert seems like ‘mission impossible’ and misplaced priority.
Despite the explanations by the Nigerian Navy on why a base can be sited in Kano and not necessarily in waterine areas, the plan has continued to generate heated controversies among stakeholders and observers.
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This article was originally published on Naija News