SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, (THEWILL) – The umbrella body for Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youths Congress Worldwide, IYC has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government against going ahead to arrest former President Goodluck Jonathan over the ongoing probe of massive fraud and embezzlement alleged that rocked his administration.
The youths, who gave this warning in Effurrun, Delta State, during the 2016 annual Major Isaac Boro anniversary celebration with the theme, “The ideals of Adaka Boro and the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta: The way forward” criticized the Federal Government for limiting its anti-corruption fight to the Jonathan government.
The IYC president, Udengs Eradiri, who declared that nobody can arrest the former president, pressed the government to probe the Halliburton bribery case under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, if it wanted Nigerians to take its anti-corruption campaign seriously.
On the renewed militancy in the region, he declared that the opening of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, for academic activities is the first condition for a roundtable discussion with the Federal Government towards ending ongoing militants’ onslaught in the region.
According to Eradiri, “People have started discussing. There was a meeting in Abuja yesterday (Wednesday) but I told them that such a meeting would not work.
“If they want us to talk, they must first open the Maritime University and start admitting students, then we would now sit and talk. The same issues for which Adaka Boro and Ken Saro-Wiwa were killed are the same issues the Avengers are raising.
“There are no Avengers anywhere. Settle these issues and the avengers would fizzle away.”
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