President BuhariThe Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), has thrown its support behind the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari, but the group has also expressed some reservations about the campaign.
According to Vanguard, the umbrella body of the Ijaw youths worldwide says it is opposed to the sack of indigenes of the Niger Delta in the oil industry. It has also faulted the Buhari administration for trying to down play the achievements of former president, Goodluck Jonathan.
Udengs Eradiri, the president of the council, who briefed newsmen on the state of the nation, in Yenagoa, on Wednesday, August 19, confirmed that though the IYC has given its conditional support for President Buhari’s anti-corruption and restructuring effort, the decision to only probe the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan is selective and targeted to rubbish the achievements of the last administration.
Eradiri said that though a formal complaint on the rearrangement of the oil and gas sector has been sent, in spite of the support by the Ijaw youth due to the needed increased funding that will allow for more development in the region.
The president said: “The recent downsize that took place in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) basically affected the indigenes of the oil producing states of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom. It is expected that the man who produces more should be part of the management or should be seen as part of those managing the resources from the region.
“And so, when we looked at the downsizing, we discovered that it was skewed towards the direction we did not like. We decided to draw the attention of the President and the Nigerian public to it.”
However it was earlier reported that, President Buhari was planning to probe officials who served under the Jonathon administration.
The probe concerns high-level of corruption allegedly committed under Jonathan administration.
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