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Sunday, 31 May 2015

Ijaw youth want amnesty programme extended

The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has expressed mixed feelings and concerns over the inaugural address of President Muhammadu Buhari in relation to the Niger Delta region. According to a statement issued by Eric Omare, the spokesman of IYC, and made available to journalists in Yenagoa on Sunday, there is need to review the terminal date of the Amnesty Programme to accommodate those who are yet to complete the scheme.

"President Muhammadu Buhari in his speech said that the amnesty programme for ex-Niger Delta agitators would end by December 2015. The IYC appreciates the fact that the amnesty programme cannot continue forever and therefore must have a terminal date. However, the questions on the lips of beneficiaries and stakeholders in the Niger Delta region are: what would happen to those that have not been trained at as December 2015. And what about those still undergoing training or have not completed their training?”

Mr. Omare said that the termination of the programme would throw up challenges for beneficiaries of the programme who were still undergoing training and were at different level of training. The IYC spokesman said the group expected the Federal Government to allay fears of beneficiaries who were in different parts of the world and were worried that their trainings might be affected if the programme was terminated in December 2015. He added that the case of substantial number of ex-agitators who had not been trained was even more worrisome.

He, therefore, appealed to the Federal Government to address challenges before the programme was terminated. On streamlining projects and programmes in the Niger Delta region to make them more effective, IYC said it would support any step of the Federal Government to strengthen institutions responsible for the development of the Niger Delta region.

The group applauded the planned streamlining of policies to rapidly develop the region. “We, however, wish to advice that any effort toward restructuring developmental institutions and projects should have the input of the people of the region at the heart of the process. “The people of the Niger Delta must be the ones to decide the shape of developmental institutions in the region.’’

The IYC said it had expected President Buhari to address issues such as cleaning up of the Niger Delta environment, implementation of the UNEP report on Ogoni. He added that also left out of the inaugural address was the menace of oil theft which had greatly contributed to environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region, which Mr. Buhari promised to tackle during the presidential campaigns.

(NAN)

39 comments:

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    1. up to Buhari to decided























































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    2. Lazy youths

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    3. Let see hw d new administration wil go abt dis but I trust GMB to handle dis issue wit wisdom.

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    4. There's time for everything and it's only natural that somethings has got to come to an end, this program is just for a certain section of youths it doesn't cut across or embrace the whole Niger delta youth and such it's time it comes to an end so the government can divert the funds to something useful. Come to think of it what are they using the money they have collected for years for?

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  2. Bunch of lazy nation destroyers

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  3. Don't worry PMB will handle It.

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  4. Buhari you are really crazy, you just enter sit and you want to shut down amnesty... You want to cause trouble, I trust ijaw boy

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    1. U re stupid for insulting d president. Bunch of lazy people

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    2. These ijaw youths are stupid.. So if the programme is terminated what would they do.....steal a scarce commodity of what.?..
      Useless bunch if they have so much fire in them they should head to sambisa and raze it down then we would know they mean business. can't they go to schools out of normal work?can't they read and get scholarships? Are their parents that useless that they abandon them to commit atrocities?

      Abeg scrap amnesty let them do their worst and let's see who will loose if not them.

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  5. Buhari you are really crazy, you just enter sit and you want to shut down amnesty... You want to cause trouble, I trust ijaw boy

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  6. Buhari you are really crazy, you just enter sit and you want to shut down amnesty... You want to cause trouble, I trust ijaw boy

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    1. Lazy ass fool, amnesty should continue for ever Abi? Go ask ijaw leaders who collected all d amnesty money fed.gov paid them n how many ppl they ve trained and wht valve has the train added to there life, at least let ur leaders produce just 10 of such ppl, no gold to dig again bro no money in treasury, thanks to ur bro GEJ

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    2. You must be stupid, you are forgetting the fact the money this boys are receiving is still money from the oil revenue that is coming from the Niger delta region. Do you want Buhari to stop it and give room for the dark days of no/poor exploration of the region? I think it's high time the Niger delta region separate from this scam called Nigeria,all this hausa and yoruba people are just after the oil from the Niger Delta. We won't hesitate to come for any hausa fool that would want to mismanage our oil revenue. Buhari should be careful,the days of military dictatorship is over, we are ready for anything.

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    3. U re a big fool, u talk oil revenue whr is the oil? Ain't u reading d news, u ppl already stole all d money, shame on u ppl, u didn't even do good for urselves, no significant development in d whole of Niger delta, all we see is ex militant living a luxury off fed.gov, a life they can't sustain, u talking ur youth n giving room for dark days, u must be very stupid for saying that, can't u ppl work n earn money like other ppl. This is a new Nigeria we want responsible youth to step out and motivate others, we want youths that will raise n take full responsibility of there own future

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  7. IOW...His speech should have taken 48hrs of reading.
    smh

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  8. Where is the money they paid to GEJ, regime to clean up the Ogoni? U re all criminals u people should go and struggle for your lives stupid people.

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  9. They are not serious, na only dem waka come ni??? Linda take note!

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  10. They are not serious, na only dem waka come ni??? Linda take note!

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    1. I tot u got healed if this ur stammering disease. Uve started again abi

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  11. They are not serious. Shey na only them waka come ni??? Linda take note!

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  12. FG should look into it and see if he can xtend
    it beyond the deadline{If possible}.

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  13. LAZY PEOPLE WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS IN NIGERIA?

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    1. Who tell d unemployed youth make Dem no come from ijaw

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    2. Victor or waheva, if dey hav 2 giv amnesty, dey hav 2 do dat 2 erry youth in nigeria den..m dose lazy asses jus bin reaping wer dey dint sow

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  14. Look at them Hooligans with destruction in their bloodline! Animals are better than you lazy fools. How can people just sit down and start planning how to destroy their own land and sources of livelihood. And now they want amnesty extended. They're nothing but a bunch of sorry saps.

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    1. To be candid even the regatta display by ijaws is basically that of battle and war....na so so fight them sabi

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  15. Seriously dis Amnesty programme no mk sense at all,d well to do benefitted mostly from it nd it made most youths useless. Esp youths 4rm d Ilaje niger delta region. D federal govt needs to appoint pple who will manage dat office properly, dats if dey even hv to cont d whole Amnesty thing. Lazy people.

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  16. Friends of Dokubo31 May 2015 at 21:13

    Free money.
    Laziness don become us, we no wan work.

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  17. Lazy youth pls get something do for ur sef.

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  18. I'm ijaw and I support GMB
    ItIt's about time that program got scrapped

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  19. it is cheaper to pay them and keep them smiling. #trustme

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  20. This is a potential time bomb waiting to explode for his administration. President Buhari should be careful and employ diplomacy and tact in tackling this issue.

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  21. I trust these animals to rear their heads again! They really have some nerve making demands on this government. Why jonah no solve all those problems before him commot? Dem no be him people ni? ^ years in the place, 4 of them as number one man of the nation and he was kising their asses, instead of telling them the truth. Abeg make dem park well and go and get jobs like everyone else. Are they the only youth in Nigeria? Buhari carry go! Okponu pipo!

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  22. i no pity them at all this time...
    many of them is on their way to jail...

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