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Bayelsa needs US $248 million to rebuild Odi

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    The Bayelsa State government says it has prepared a 25-billion-naira (US $248 million) blueprint for the reconstruction of Odi, destroyed six months ago after federal forces moved in to arrest police killers, `The Guardian' reported on Monday.

    Governor Diepreye Alameyeseigha told reporters in Abjua, the federal capital, that "a whole community" had been levelled. He said the central authorities had done little to rehabilitate the victims in Odi and that he might appeal to the international community to help rebuild the community.

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