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Abati,
I read a lot of absence of orientation and coherence in your articles. But so far, you remain a brave journalist before many.

Yenagoa was a rusty one-street village when you visited it in 2000.
When you visited recently, that rural Yenagoa had transformed to an urban town.

Yenagoa an old provincial headqurter in Nigeria, you should know, ought to have witnessed much more development than many of the other old provincial headquarters, given the black gold under its feet.

A few months ago you wrote in this village that the Southeast was asking for another state in order to equal its rival - the Southwest. You were very very dishonest in that assertion. I do not believe that much of the well-informed Southwest can make a trifle of the importance of egalitarianism for a nation state.
A good journalist quickly recognises the ruth and builds on it. He ddoes not create a phantasm to belittle a just cause.

Be focussed RA!

If Bayelsa had not been carved out of the old Rivers state, perhaps you could not have seen much, if any, of the developments you met in Yenagoa during your recent visit.