The Ijaw Youths Congress on Thursday warned the Federal
Government to reconsider on the plans to arrest the former President Goodluck
Jonathan over the ongoing probe of massive fraud and embezzlement alleged to
have taken place under his administration
Speaking at a meeting at the Wellington Hotel Effurrun,
Delta State, IYC president, Udengs Eradiri, criticised the present
administration for limiting its anti-corruption campaign only to the Jonathan
regime. He urged the APC-led Federal 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, Udengs, said the
opening of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, for academic
activities was the first condition for a roundtable discussion with the Federal
Government towards ending ongoing militants’ onslaught in the region.
Eradiri said, “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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