WARRI—YOUTH
leaders in the Niger Delta on the platform of Niger Delta Ethnic Nationality
Youth Leaders, have called on the Federal Government to urgently embark
on the
construction of Gas Revolution Industrial Park, GRIP Project, Ogidigben, Delta
State, Export Processing Zone, Cross River State, Brass Fertilizer Project in
Bayelsa State and the Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, in Warri South-West
Local Government Area in Delta State.
The group also
called for the reactivation of Calabar, Warri and Port Harcourt sea ports as
well as the construction of Lagos-Calabar rail line among others, saying the
projects are capable of generating over 500,000 job opportunities for youths in
the region.
The youth
leaders made the demands, weekend, in a communiqué issued in Warri, Delta
State, after an extensive closed door meeting.
The communiqué read by the
President of Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, Esimaje Awani, also urged
the Federal Government to complete the East-West Road, Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road
as well as the inclusion of all ethnic national youth leaders in the proposed
dialogue to permanently end bombing and vandalism of critical national crude oil
and gas pipelines “because we are most vulnerable.”
They called on all
agitating groups to sheathe their swords and give peace a chance, even as they
appealed to the Federal Government to release the detained leader of Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, and Shite leader, El Zakzaky. The
communiqué signed by President of Ijaw Youth Council, Udengs Eradiri, President
of Isoko Youth Council, Victor Egbo, President of Ikwerre Youth Council, Edward
Odum, President of Itsekiri National Youth Council, Esimaje Awani, President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro,
among others, called for the political inclusion of youths in government.
President of Ibibio Youth Council, Imoh Stephen Okiko, President of Kalabari
Youth Foundation, Engr. Damigie Pharry and President of Efik Youth Council,
Capt.
Bassey Henshaw among others, called for the political inclusion of youths
in government.
Speaking earlier, President of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Comrade
Udengs Eradiri posited that the Amnesty Programme, NDDC and other key
interventionist agencies in the Niger Delta are under-funded, just as he tasked
the Federal Government to be more decisive in the implementation of its
programmes and policies in a bid to tackle the present economic realities.
Vanguard reports that Youth Presidents
from about 25 ethnic Nationalities cutting across Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers,
Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo and Abia States make up the Niger Delta Ethnic Nationality
Youth Leaders’ Forum.
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