By Mike ALADENIKA
Isoko National Youth Assembly, INYA, has threatened to shut down all oil facilities in Isoko land, should the Federal and Delta State governments continue to protect oil facilities and refuse to protect the lives and properties of the Isoko people.
It said: "We all are aware of military presence around oil facilities in Isoko land. The government cannot continually keep military men in watch over oil facilities for their economic gains and yet do nothing about the lives and valuable properties of our people."
Addressing newsmen at Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, President of INYA, Comrade Amos Ogbokor-Etaluku said: "It is no news that parts of Isoko nation are engulfed in intercommunal bloodletting and wanton destruction of properties which have disrupted the peaceful coexistence and movement of persons in Isoko land.
"What is most disheartening is the government’s apathy and aloofness towards these crises. This is totally unacceptable. We are calling on government’s immediate intervention by sending military presence to the concerned communities and to put conflict resolution mechanism in place for the people to have conciliatory meetings towards amicably resolutions of the various needless fracases."
On the appointment of a Sole Administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Ogbokor-Etaluku said: "Federal Government’s refusal to constitute a substantive board for agenda setting and development of the region, is politics taken too far.
"The continuous appointment of Interim Committees and now Sole Administrator for the Commission is illegal and regrettably contravenes the Law seeting up the Commission. We therefore call for the immediate sack of the Sole Administrator of the NDDC. We demand that a substantive board and management team be inaugurated for the Commission inline with Laws of the Commission."
Lamenting the non inclusion of Isoko youths in the Presidential Amnesty Program, he said "We see this as grossly discriminatory. As the amnesty program reaches what has been called the 'non-violent stage', we cannot fold our hands any longer and watch other nations benefit and not have our people included in the program."
"We are by this statement giving an eviction notice to all oil companies in Isoko land one month from the date of this press release if our youths are not included in the program. The federal government should please take note."
Also speaking, Vice President of INYA, Comrade Osu Johnny called for the appointment of qualified Isoko sons and daughters by the Federal Government, stabilization of electricity in Isoko land by oil companies and speedy completion of all projects in the Oleh Campus of the Delta State University, DELSU.
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