thickened on Friday with the Senator representing Bayelsa East, Biobarakuma Wangagha Degi-Eremienyo, warning former Governor Henry Seriake Dickson to stop instigating violence in the Niger Delta.
He was reacting to a press conference by Dickson on Thursday where he accused the Minister of State , Chief Timipre Sylva, of allegedly changing the development funds percentage in the PIB for host communities from 5 per cent to 3 per cent, which he said it was a collective decision by the National Assembly.
He said the comments by Dickson smacked of envy, mischief and intimidatation by the astronomical rising profile of Sylva.
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