Youths in the Ijaw under the aegis of Ijaw Youths Congress, IYC, has warned the Federal Government against any plan to arrest former President Goodluck Jonathan over the ongoing probe of fraud and embezzlement that allegedly rocked his administration.
IYC gave the warning in Effurrun, Delta State, during the 2016 annual Major Isaac Boro anniversary celebration with the theme, “The ideals of Adaka Boro and the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta: The way forward.”
The youth body criticised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for limiting its anti-corruption campaign only to the Jonathan regime.
President of IYC, Udengs Eradiri, advised the FG 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, Eradiri, 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.
He said, “People have started discussing. There was a meeting in Abuja yesterday 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,” he said.
