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The leader of the Phase
2 Amnesty Program, Comrade Steven Ebisintei has refuted a publication where he
was quoted to have alleged fraud against Ali Bozi Tamaratare, Richard Turner
and some members of the legal department of Presidential Amnesty Program Office.
In a press release he signed and made available to
journalists in Abuja, Comrade Ebisintei said he was quoted out of context and
thus regretted the injury the said publication must have caused Messrs
Tamaratare, Turner and some members of the legal department of Presidential
Amnesty Program. “I granted an interview to one Mr. Aloude, a freelance
journalist and made available some court documents in respect of a pending case
at the Federal High Court, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
“I am aware that the aforesaid interview and the court
documents I supplied led to the publication of a story with the above-headed
caption and the same was published on some online news site, which went viral.
“In the said story, I was alleged to have stated that Ali
Bozi Tamaratare, Richard Turner, claimant’s counsel and some members of staff
of the legal department of the Presidential Amnesty Programme had conspired to
defraud the federal government. I state categorically that I was misquoted by
the immediate publishers of the story and I hereby state that all the
allegations leveled against Ali Bozi Tamaratare, Richard Turner and some
undisclosed members of the legal department of the Presidential Amnesty
Programme are false. “I hereby tender my unreserved apology to Messrs
Tamarantare, Turner and the undisclosed members of the legal department for the
said publication of November 4. 2019 and the injury the same may have caused.
“This publication is made solely to state that the facts published on the said
date are products of a misquote and are false. They are thus refuted,” Comrade
Ebisintei said.
Source: Vanguard