Rivers Crisis: Ijaw Youths Council urges political gladiators to embrace peace to avoid insecurity
The Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide (IYC) has called on gladiators in the current political crisis in Rivers to put aside their differences and work together in the interest of the people of the state.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the spokesman of IYC, Mr Bedford Benjamin, said doing otherwise is an invitation to insecurity which the Niger Delta region cannot afford at this critical time of the nation.
The statement explained :”The peace enjoyed in the Niger Delta about two decades now has been taken for granted, and matchants of crisis are not happy about the relative peace in the oil rich region.
“The recent happenings in Rivers State call for an urgent rethink giving the serial blackmails, politically motivated media attacks, and the latest court verdicts, pressuring the region to forment avoidable crisis in the region for machants to capitalise on the oil rich region to service their interest will not be accepted.
“The disposition of some paid majority in the Rivers state House of Assembly calls for concern for the political health of the state and, by extension, the region.
“A situation where one man’s position is against the vast majority population dwindles the lean patrotic fate of the democracy practised to the ‘alleged highest bidder’ will not be condoned.
“As the conscience of the youth group in the Niger Delta region, We weep with utmost dismay that the future promised by our leaders to be handed over to the next generation is in doubt, with the current happening.
“As a youth group with a huge population in Nigeria geographical locations, our dream seems mortgaged on by some selfish sponsored power drunks leaders,”.
The spokesman of the youth group condemns the sponsored publications by enemies of the region to instigate ethical wars in Rivers state, describing it as dead on arrival.
According to Benjamin, the unscrupulous elements parading as Ijaw Youth leaders to give the Rivers state crisis an ethnic colouration just stop forthwith.
The Rivers people are wiser and conscious of those who have them at heart to bridge the needed developmental gaps in the state.
“Democracy is the government of the people, and the people of Rivers state shall defy ethnic differences to defend the course of democracy in the state.
“The issue in Rivers state does not affect the Ijaws alone, but rather, the entire ethnic structures of the state must defend the course of democracy to be free from political tyranny,” he said.
The IYC spokesman admonished the Rivers people to remain united beyond political affiliations and fight for the total liberation from tyranny and political slavery.
“The allegedly hypnotised 27 errand boys should know that it is between them over four million Rivers people.
“The federal government should know that if Rivers state burns as a result of this easy -to -solve political tussle, it is a slap on their Renewed Hope Agenda message preached by the administration under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and a total rape on democracy.
“Avoid insecurity in River State and Reconsider the conscience of the people to avert possible breakdown of law and order,”the statement added.
