Pipeline contract: Niger Delta youths reject solidarity walk, insist on audit, decentralization

Niger Delta youths, nether the aegis of Pan-Niger Delta Youth Forum, person denounced the ‘Peace, Unity and Solidarity Walk’ held successful Abuja to show enactment for the pipeline extortion declaration being executed by Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited. 

The Pan-Niger Delta Youth Forum, comprising youths of Ijaw, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Isoko, Ogoni and different taste nationalities, described the solidarity locomotion arsenic an unrepresentative lawsuit driven by constrictive idiosyncratic interests alternatively than the corporate volition of the region.

The youths, successful a connection signed by Comrade Samson Edafe on Tuesday, stated that the presumption articulated by Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, leader, Jonathan Lokpobiri, during the locomotion does not talk for the wider Ijaw federation oregon the radical of the Niger Delta. 
“We presumption Jonathan Lokpobiri arsenic a failed President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) who has wholly abandoned the imaginativeness and ideals of this once-prestigious group.

“We callback with nostalgia erstwhile the IYC, nether the enactment of Asari Dokubo and different notable past presidents, served arsenic a credible and formidable level for advancing the progress, development, and corporate interests of the Ijaw federation and the broader Niger Delta region.

“Today, nether the ticker of Jonathan Lokpobiri, the IYC has regre...