The Ijaw Youths Congress on Thursday warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government not to contemplate arresting former President Goodluck Jonathan over the ongoing probe of massive fraud and embezzlement alleged to have taken place under his administration.
The youths, who converged at the Wellington Hotel Effurrun, Delta State, for the 2016 annual Major Isaac Boro anniversary celebration with the theme, “The ideals of Adaka Boro and the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta: The way forward,” criticised the present administration for limiting its anti-corruption campaign only to the Jonathan regime.
The IYC president, Udengs Eradiri, urged the APC-led Federal Government to probe the Halliburton bribery case under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, if it wanted Nigerians to take its anti-corruption campaign seriously.
On the renewed militancy in the region, Udengs, said the opening of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, for academic activities was the first condition for a roundtable discussion with the Federal Government towards ending ongoing militants’ onslaught in the region.
Eradiri said, “People have started discussing. There was a meeting in Abuja yesterday (Wednesday) but I told them that such a meeting would not work.
“If they want us to talk, they must first open the Maritime University and start admitting students, then we would now sit and talk. The same issues for which Adaka Boro and Ken Saro-Wiwa were killed are the same issues the Avengers are raising.
“There are no Avengers anywhere. Settle these issues and the avengers would fizzle away.”
Prominent rights activist, Tony Uranta, who also spoke at the occasion said, “Isaac Boro and Ken Saro-Wiwa died fighting for the emancipation of the Niger Delta, later we had Asari Dokubo, Tompolo and others. But because Tompolo was taken out, new faces have come up.”
Uranta called on Buhari to reassure Niger Delta youths that the amnesty programme would not be cancelled if the peace in the region was to be sustained, noting that there were many beneficiaries who had not gone on training.
He said the cancellation of the programme would further throw the region into another rounds of militancy which would negatively affect the nation’s already dwindling economy. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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ReplyDeleteThe Nigerian delta youth are not just ready to face reality. The government have done so much and have allocated so much to that region, created the NNDC, created Niger Delta ministry, gave amnesty, gave contract to militant to protect the pipelines. All this run into trillion of Nigeria bt still no impact in the region. You ppl should knw by now it is not the federal government that has neglected you, bt ur leaders are undermining ur development. Why not face them and hold them accountable I stead of causing unnecessary hardship and holding the whole country to ransom
ReplyDeleteCan u do more than bombing of pipeline?.
ReplyDeleteThat bombing of pipeline if not checked,can bring Nigeria to her knees...that's just the truth...
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ReplyDeleteThe down fall of nigeria is to arrest jonatha
ReplyDeletenow the politicians again are pitching them against each other like they started during the warri crisis....... presently the itsekiri zone which has been calm because Chevron the host company has done well and has meet all and kept to all MOU and several GMOU with all stakeholders and her host communities; the other ethnic community see it as a slide on their part having lost out politically at the national level see the tseke's stake-holders as dancing too close to the ruling APC, then they have to go down with us as well!! the present disruption is an ego thing....
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