The group described any impeachment moves against Akpabio as unnecessary, stressing that some paid agents and vested interests are working round the clock to ignite instability in the Senate with the ongoing drama.
Browsing: ijaw youths
It accused unnamed mischief makers and their sponsors of spreading false allegations of financial misconduct against the PAP boss.
While conceding that the duo of Buhari and Sylva have the constitutional rights to move to any parts of the country, the youths insisted that “their movement into the six states of the Niger Delta will be welcome with boos and disgraceful jeers due to their show of disregard to the plights and cry of the people of the region over the years”.
In statement issued on Thursday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State by the Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, the youths also commended the Interim Administrator of the programme, retired Colonel Milland Dikio, over Kemepado’s appointment.
Members of the Ijaw Youth Council, Lagos State Chapter have called on the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to order the re-arrest of a murder suspect, Olugbenga James, who was reportedly discharged by a Lagos State Magistrate Court through what was alleged to be a conspiracy between some police officers at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti and the judiciary.
Boroh, also the Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme said this when 25 Ijaw Youths groups held a rally at the gates of the Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja on Tuesday.
The IYC President also said that priority needed to be given to the university because of its strategic location in the heart of the Niger Delta, for it to help solve some of the region’s peculiar challenges
The statement said: “The IYC, therefore, insist that the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, must bring those who masterminded the kidnap of Miss Ese Oruru to justice in line with the Anti-kidnapping law of Bayelsa
The IYDI in a statement issued on Thursday by its President, Ebifagha Timothy, and Secretary-General, Tilly Ekaunkumo, stated that the APC and its candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, were neither campaigning nor setting any machinery in motion as a party about to go into an election as close as December 5
The statement said; “Government must act decisively irrespective of whose ox is gored and protect the ordinary people of Nigeria”.
“The interest of the generality of Nigerians is over and above the interest of a few power hungry people who are sponsoring terrorism”