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Article: Nigeria denies plans to buy arms for Niger Delta with budgetary money
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 21, 2007
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Nigeria denies plans to buy arms for Niger Delta with budgetary
money
LAGOS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's Interior Minister Godwin Abe
dismissed allegation that the 2008 budgetary allocation to theNiger
Delta is to procure arms to contain militant activities, according
to news reaching here on Tuesday.
Abe said the allocation was to accelerate the pace of development
and allow peace to reign in the region and the countryat large.
He made the clarification on Monday in Port Harcourt during an
assessment tour of some part of ...