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The clamp down and the purported charges against me and indeed this organisation were essentially to stop Mr President from assenting to the NPC Bill and stopping the Legislative Arm of Government from doing the needful.

The national commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Amb. (Dr.) Dickson Akoh, was on Tuesday, June 12, discharged of the 13-count criminal charges prefered against him by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP).

The National Human Right Commission (NHRC) has vowed to investigate the refusal of the Nigeria Police and the inspector general of police to unseal the headquarters of the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) in Abuja.

The national commandant of the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Dickson Akoh, has said that the agency's bill is still on course. Akoh said the bill still stands to guide the functionality of the Peace Corps of Nigeria.

The National Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Ambassador Dickson Akoh, says the bill to establish Nigerian Peace Corps was still on course and not dead, contrary to some media reports suggesting the bill was dead.

This was contained in a judgement delivered on Friday, May 25, by Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed, in a fundamental human rights enforcement suit instituted against the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in 2013.