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Following complaints and the call by aggrieved members of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, for the redeployment of the minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Oil, Senator Heneiken Lokpobiri, a Niger Delta ex-agitator, Comrade Obubo Opukeme aka Galadima, has advised the minister not to take the issues raised by the IYC for granted.
Opukeme, who is a member of the Third Phase of Ex-Agitators under the Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP), argued that the issues raised by IYC are germane, “considering the level of unemployment and lack of livelihood of numerous aggrieved youths as they demand very urgent attention to ameliorate their suffering and untold hardship.”
He said that “for peace to reign in Niger Delta region, as a matter of urgency, he (Lokpobiri) should open his doors for them to chart away forward.”
Speaking to journalists in Yenagoa, Comrade Obubo Opukeme said that the IYC members were pushed to make the publication “due to the hunger and untold hardship that pervade the region, as all efforts to seek attention from the minister have been elusive and fruitless,” adding that “as stakeholders they deserve attention, but the minister has refused to carry them along, and a hungry man is an aggry man.”
He also made a case for the leadership of the ex- Agitators of the Third Phase of the Presidential Amnesty Program, who have been making several efforts to seek audience with him without success.
“We have passed the era of incessant protests and blocking of roads, thereby giving the region bad image, he should of necessity create time to meet to discuss like father and sons”
He said majority of them are graduates and professionals that the minister can employ in the petroleum industry.
“There a lot of aggrieved youths, they are looking for assistance from highly placed political office holders like the minister of Petroleum, Oil, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri”
He also urged the minister of Petroleum, Oil, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri to regard those behind the said publication as his sons and forgive them for their action.
