
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has lamented alleged deliberate neglect and underdevelopment of Ijaw areas in Delta State by Governor Sheriff Oborevwori-led authorities.
Spokesman for the IYC, Amb. Binebai Yerin Princewill, raised the alarm in a press release in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, following a information convention yesterday on the state of Ijaw areas in Burutu, Delta State.
The spokesman mentioned regardless of the Ijaw political and financial contributions to the state and the emergence of Oborevwori, the Ijaws are but to see any concrete mission that may very well be thought-about a landmark achievement for the Ijaw individuals in Delta.
Princewill claimed: “We’re starting to understand Oborevwori as a Governor who lacks developmental plans or agenda for the Ijaws.
“His initiatives have been seen as extremely sentimental and in opposition to all recognized ideas of equity, justice, and fairness. They seem like twisted and skewed in opposition to the Ijaws of Delta State. The Ijaws can’t proceed to be disproportionately burdened whereas others profit from our contributions.
“The IYC is stating clearly that we can’t proceed to be micromanaged by the state authorities. There’s a must steadiness his administration, making certain that every one ethnic teams in Delta have a way of belonging. Delta State belongs to all of us, and the Ijaw ethnic group is a critical stakeholder within the state.
“We should be given cheap consideration by way of growth, youth empowerment, and different areas to atone for our contributions towards the emergence of Oborevwori as Governor of Delta State, contemplating our political and financial contributions.
“As a council, now we have keenly adopted the 2024 and 2025 budgets of the Delta State authorities beneath Oborevwori’s watch. Other than the shortage of full implementation of the 2024 price range, there isn’t a sufficient provision for the Ijaw individuals. As an alternative, we see a repetition of initiatives that might have been addressed within the earlier price range.
“We’re utilizing this press convention to name on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to urgently pay critical consideration to the Delta State Maritime Polytechnic, Burutu, the one state-owned tertiary establishment in Delta Ijaw land. The Polytechnic was established by an Act of the Delta State Home of Meeting in 2006 and commenced functioning in 2011.
“Nevertheless, from 2011 until date, there isn’t a construction that the Delta State Authorities has been in a position to full on the everlasting website.
“Snakes, reptiles, overgrown weeds, and all types of harmful creatures now inhabit the huge expanse of land donated to the varsity. That is worrisome, particularly contemplating that inside months of the institution of the Southern Delta College at Orerokpe, gigantic constructions are actually seen all over the place. We’d like the identical vitality to be transferred to the long-standing Delta State Maritime Polytechnic, Burutu.”
The spokesman additionally known as on the Delta State Authorities to ship an govt Invoice to the Delta Meeting for the Directorate of Riverine Infrastructural Growth, to be completely backed by legislation, just like the Warri, Uvwie, and environs Particular Space Growth Company and the Delta State Capital Territory Growth Company.
He additionally urged the Governor to urgently right the political anomaly in Warri North Native Authorities Space, asserting that solely Itsekiris got the 2 commissioner slots, whereas it’s a native authorities purely dominated by the Ijaws of Egbema and the Itsekiris.
Princewill alleged {that a} important variety of Ijaw youths who toiled and labored for the emergence of Oborevwori as Governor are but to be appointed to serve in any capability, maybe their crime is that they’re from Ijaw, therefore they need to not profit.
He lamented: “That is appalling, particularly when their counterparts from different ethnic shares, who didn’t do greater than they did through the elections, are thriving in his authorities. The Ijaw youths have been so uncared for.”
The assertion warned that if inside one month, the state authorities didn’t provoke motion to handle the perceived injustices in Delta, they’d exhibit their discontent by way of a vote of no confidence and potential protests to function a warning to authorities officers concerning the rising frustrations inside the Ijaw areas.