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Obasanjo gives ultimatum for arrest of police, army killers

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    President Obasanjo has given Bayelsa State two-weeks to arrest the killers of policemen and soldiers in the Niger Delta or he would declare a state of emergency in the violence wracked region. His ultimatum was contained in a letter dated 10 November to Bayelsa State Governor Dieprete Alamieyeseigha, a copy of which was published in Wednesday in a Lagos daily newspaper, ‘The Guardian’.

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