IYC Berates Northern Youths over Protest against Pipeline Contract Renewal

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Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has berated the Northern Youth Advocacy Group and Arewa Youth Forum for allegedly staging protests against the pipeline surveillance contract in the Niger Delta region.

IYC noted that it was strange and insulting to see northern youths, from another region without oil, staging protest against a pipeline surveillance contract in the Niger Delta and deciding who should take the contract or not.

Addressing newsmen in Warri yesterday, the spokesman of IYC,

Comrade Binebai Yerin Princewill, warned the northern youths to steer clear of issues affecting the Niger Delta, noting that they don’t experience what the people of the region are going through in the process of oil exploitation.

“As Ijaw people and Niger Deltans whose lands the oil and gas flows from, we find it strange and insulting to see Northern youths that are from a region without oil staging protest against a pipeline surveillance contract in Niger Delta and in the process deciding on who to give and not to give with a lot of provocative remarks against our region and our respected leader.

“The he Northern Youth Advocacy for Good Governance Initiative and Arewa Youth Forum must know their boundary in this country, they should keep clear from activities of the Niger Delta, particularly to the Ijaw people.

We will not be tolerating this all the time. .

IYC has never protested against any Northerner not to be given contract in his place or region. We have had too many of these kind of misguided protests against our people from the Northern youths.