The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC led
by Comrade Roland Oweilaemi Pereotubo, Esq, on Sunday called on the Nigerian
Military to delist the IPOB group or any of its affiliate groups as “terrorist
organisation” saying the declaration of the group as a terrorists organisation
is “Unconstitutional” as “it is targeted at ending right to freedom of peaceful
assembly and association.
Pereotubor said the military’s
misconceived action was inconsistent with international treaties that empowered
those harmless Organisations to agitate for their freedom.
Pereotubor made the assertion in
a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media,Comrade Alaowei Cleric,
Esq, in Warri, saying there is no rationale
behind the declaration as the reasons advanced by the military cannot hold
waters.
Pereotubor noted that no amount
of proscription of the Independent People of Biafra,IPOB and militants in the
Niger Delta as a terrorist group by the Nigerian Military will cow them into
submitting their agitations to oppressors.
He added that dialogue was the
only solution to the agitations by the Independent People of Biafra, the
Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra as well as militants in the
South-East and Niger Delta Region.
“There are no reported cases of
IPOB members or any of their affiliate groups terrorising people in the South
East. Even the alleged confrontation with the military, according to the
former’s account is that the youths were merely armed with sticks, bottles and
stones.”
“How on earth do such persons’
actions constitute threat to national security? The Fulani herdsmen that have
massacred thousands of unarmed Nigerians across the country have not been
declared terrorists.”
“Let the military collaborates
with the relevant authorities to address the injustices against the South East
and the South South regions.”
Pereorubor also enjoined the
South-East Governors to use their vintage position to prevail on the Federal
Government to address the vexatious issues of the lopsided appointments as well
as the political marginalization of the region by the present Government.
“They should rather speak for the
people whom they represent instead of cowardly joining the oppressors to
continue sidelining the region from the scheme of things.”
He further said only
restructuring of the country to allow for regional autonomy and resource
ownership can curb the agitations in the Niger Delta region.
He warned that the killings of
harmless agitators in the East must stop now.
“The Government should also
jettison its plan to rearrest Nnamdi Kanu. The only solution is to engage him
in a dialogue, while the present Government retraces its steps towards the
region.”
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God bless all of you. The Nigerian military were fired up by a special kind of revelry that they thought would boost their ego but what they did has tarnished their battered image - listing unarmed group of people as terrorists! The entire world is their audience.
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