{"id":37693,"date":"2015-04-10T05:47:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T04:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=37693"},"modified":"2015-04-10T05:47:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T04:47:39","slug":"douglas-death-devastating-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/douglas-death-devastating-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas &#8216; death devastating &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has described as devastating the death of Special Adviser, Research and Strategy to President Goodluck JONATHAN , Mr. Oronto Douglas.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Late Douglas\u00a0 who died in the early hours of Thursday was a\u00a0 lawyer, human rights activist and environmentalist .\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Mark in a condolence message\u00a0 to President JONATHAN , Government and People of Bayelsa state lamented that Douglas left when his services were most needed.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Senate President lamented : &#8221; It is sad that Douglas died in his prime when the nation actually needed his services. Douglas was a scholar in his own right. He was resourceful and dedicated . He was a think tank who left a vacuum too difficult to fill.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8221; I earnestly share in this grief\u00a0 even as I pray that God in His infinite mercies grant the immediate family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He However counseled the bereaved family to take solace in the fact that late Douglas lived an eventful life and left his positive footprint on the sands of time.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Mark noted that late Douglas would be remembered for his struggle for the emancipation of the people of the Niger Delta and adherent to the rule of law and human rights in NIGERIA,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Signed:<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul Mumeh, chief Press Secretary to the President of the Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has described as devastating the death of Special Adviser, Research and Strategy to President Goodluck JONATHAN , Mr. Oronto Douglas.\u00a0Late Douglas\u00a0 who died&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Douglas &#039; 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