RESOURCE CONTROL: NIGERIA, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED- IYC

Niger Delta Youths Threatens To Cripple Economy

Niger Delta youths on Thursday vowed to return to the trenches and bring Nigerian economy to its knees if the ongoing national conference failed to uphold resource control and true federalism.

The youths under the aegis of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, rejected the decision of the National Conference Sub-Committee on Devolution and Resource Control to maintain the current 13 per cent derivation for oil-producing states.

IYC in a statement signed by its Spokesman, Mr. Eric Omare, described the decision as retrogressive, anti-federalism and totally unacceptable to Niger Delta people.

Omare said: “The IYC wish to warn that the decision of the Niger Delta people to give peace a chance to allow the federal government address the problems of the Niger Delta should not be taken as weakness.

“The Niger Delta people are still willing, ready and capable of bringing the Nigeria economy to its knees.”He said the refusal of the committee to address the issue of resource control had betrayed the expectations of Niger Delta region and Nigerians.

He said the committee has made nonsense of the conference as an avenue to “right the wrongs of the past, deepen our federal system of government and put Nigeria on the path for development.

”Omare further said the decision was simply a triumph of the retrogressive and provocative agenda of reactionary forces in Northern Nigeria.“The opposition of reactionary northern delegates to resource control and demand for scrapping of the NDDC, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Amnesty programme are provocative to the Niger Delta people and we may be forced to take drastic actions.

“These are interventionist agencies created for specific purposes which are not only beneficial to the Niger Delta Region but the entire country as demonstrated in the astronomical increase in the nation’s revenue as a result of the Amnesty programme,” he said.

Source.. The nation

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