Ijaw Youth Council Plans One-million-man March Against Buhari - Politics

The umbrella body of the Ijaw Youths worldwide, the
Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), has concluded plans to
stage a one-million-man protest march against
perceived wrong policies targeted at the Niger Delta
region under the administration of President
Mohammad Buhari.
Some of the policies the Ijaw youths plan to protest
against include the planned closure of the Maritime
University in Korutie community of Warri South-West
local Government area of Delta State.
The protest march, according to the IYC, would be
organized as a Youth Convention at the temporary
site of the Maritime University, in Korutie community
and would involve various Niger Delta communities,
student organizations, sympathizers of development
education, higher institutions of learning in the
region, and local clans.
According to the organisers, the protest is expected
to halt the supposed biased policies of the current
administration against the interests of the Niger
Delta people.
President of the IYC, Udengs Eradiri, who made this
known during an interactive session with the media
in Yenagoa, argued that though the protest was not
targeted against the person and office of President
Muhammadu Buhari, the protest is an open message
to his administration that the people of the region
were tired of what they see as unfavorable policies
against the region and its people.

Eradiri said the modalities for the planned protest
will be announced within a week and that invitations
for the special convention will be sent out.

He explained that the protest will be to show the
world that the President is too busy to closely
monitor what is happening in the Niger Delta region.
On the proposed cancellation of the Niger Delta
Maritime University, Eradiri said the people of the
region should not castigate the former Governor of
Rivers State and Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi
Amaechi, for the announcement on planned
cancellation of the University because he (Amaechi)
is only a messenger sent by “some Northern
Powers”.
According to the group, “immediately after Buhari
took office, the first casualty was the NIMASA
Managing Director. Immediately after the Acting DG
took over, the first action he took was to suspend
work on the Maritime University and the second
action was to suspend funding for Nigerians
undergoing studies in foreign universities because of
a vendetta. So, people should not throw tantrums at
Amaechi. This matter started in June and we have
written a series of letters to President Buhari.”

“The administration is ill-informed despite seeing
pictures of the institution on the internet. Buhari
should now know that the claim by its spokesman,
Rotimi Amaechi, that a feasibility study was done
have now been seen to be false. We have met the
Niger Delta Minister and he was perplexed that the
claim was false and that even the N13 billion land
fraud was part of the development in the institution.
Nigeria has spent over N100 billion on the facilities in
the institution and how can you just come and say
you are shutting it down because you suspect fraud.
Are you saying we should shut down office of the
NSA? Or shut down Nigeria because we suspect
fraud?”

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