The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Worldwide has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to, as a matter of national importance, initiate the amendment of the Constitution by allowing States to harness and control the resources in their domains.


While stressing that this is the only path to peace in Nigeria, the IYC warned that anything short of resource control will be disastrous to the economic survival of the nation.

IYC leader, Pereotubo Roland Oweilaemi, who made this assertion in a statement made available to DAILY POST, said, “Niger Delta people will control her resources even if it means to be killed by the trigger-happy and the Niger Deltaphobe military Joint Task Force in the region.”


Oweilaemi, who spoke against the backdrop of news of illegal mining activities in the northern part of the country where powerful individuals are allowed to tap natural resources in their domains, said the Niger Delta people want to control the resources in their lands since solid minerals in the North are now reduced to individual ownership in spite of the nation’s laws which vests ownership of natural resources in the Federal Government.

According to him, “If the Nigerian laws did not mean anything to the illegal miners of solid minerals in the North then Niger Delta people will also take control of all petroleum resources in the southern region notwithstanding, the constitutional provisions.

“Niger Delta oil cannot be subducted to family ownership to Nigeria, while solid minerals in the North are being extracted by those concerned as individual ownership.


“It’s either the Government restructure the Country by allowing States to harness and control the resources in their domains or we will take every steps necessary to exercise control of the resources in our fatherland.

“Despite the fact that illegal mining activities are causing a bloody crisis in the North, the FG has not deemed it necessary to set up a military joint task force to checkmate the illegal mining activities because the solid minerals in the country are seen as private ownership to the feudal Lords. There cannot be one Nigeria if everybody in the Country is not treated with the same measure.

“Everyday people have been killed and property worth billions of naira have been destroyed in the name of illegal oil bunkering activities by the marauding Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta region.


“The FG chose to protect the oil facilities at the expense of the oil-bearing communities because crude oil is seen as a national property, while solid minerals in the North belongs to the individual persons. Is this the one Nigeria they are preaching?”

https://dailypost.ng/2019/04/20/ijaw-youths-blow-hot-gold-mining-north-demand-constitution-amendment

Nothing short of the truth here.

stupid people , you rant online but when time demands for action you will hide .

The ijaws are foolish set of people, they re one of our problem here in south south, but they are right, i never thought that nigeria ve gold thanks to bandits for exposing everything

Alaniyiokorausa:
stupid people , you rant online but when time demands for action you will hide .

Imaging This One! Was He Refering To You? Why Are You Pained Like Frustrated He-goat?

Alaniyiokorausa:
stupid people , you rant online but when time demands for action you will hide .

Their pocket is running dry. When you hear this Ijaw youths talk about resources,they're indirectly telling the government to settle them and after then their voice will go cold.

Fools, allow them to continue milking you dry and giving you peanuts. Nonsense

Same old story, talk without action

I thought the Ijaws were active

From a tribe whose son GEJ has the opportunity of correcting the wrong for good 6 years but squandered it.




stupid foolish people!

Who are these noise makers?

Once they share money for all of una nobody go see una again until the money finish.

Hahahahaha..... na now these guys dey wake up from slumber?

Southern Nigerians, if you love yourselves and your generations to come, better chart a way forward in this contraption called "Nigeria" by deciding on two options only:

1. True Federalism and regional independence like in the US.

2. Divide the country.

Use any powerful means available ( internally or externally ), even if it means to break a sweat to achieve any of these two options above. Otherwise, anything short of this, you're doomed forever

Basic123:
From a tribe whose son GEJ has the opportunity of correcting the wrong for good 6 years but squandered it.




stupid foolish people!

Tell me how GEJ would have gone about this seeing as he needs approval of 2/3 of members in the National Assembly (and possibly states assembly as well)!

It’s obvious he didn’t want to rock the boat too much seeing as he was going for a second term in office. Even though i see it’s recommendations as not far-reaching enough, wasn’t the 2014 constitutional conference a start on his part? The Buhari govt has now consigned the recommendations of said conference to the dustbin....this should give you an idea how they take all this talk of resource control!

These Ijaw boys are just making noise, and the ‘owners of Nigeria’ know it! Last-last, they will find some greedy Ijaw youths to counter this ‘rebellious lot’....who will declare their satisfaction with things as they are and equally declare their undying love for ‘one Nigeria’ and Buhari!