Ijaw Youth Council throws weight behind Biafra. Demands for unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu

Ijaw Youth Council throws weight behind Biafra. Demands for unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu

Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has thrown its weight behind the Biafran Restoration Project (BRP). The IYC followed up their stance by calling for the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who also doubles as the Radio Biafra director. IYC condemned his arrest and illegal detention arguing that Biafrans were merely exercising their rights and as such, the arrest was unwarranted.

The body’s president, Comrade Udengs Eradiri, in a chat with newsmen in Yenagoa, stressed that the issues Kanu raised were fundamental to the existence of the country as the Ijaws were also pondering what Kanu and his colleagues had enunciated.

Comrade Udengs Eradiri: Ijaw Youth Council throws weight
behind Biafra. Demands for unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu

Eradiri also called on the Nigerian Government to have an economic plan as an alternative for the people of the Niger Delta region being raided for oil bunkering and illegal refining activities in the creeks.

The head of the organisation housing all Ijaw youths in the oil-rich region warned that if urgent steps were not taken to stem the tide of injustice being meted out to the people by General Muhammadu Buhari, the people may rise against the government. He maintained that the people must be involved in the management of their resources, stressing that when they are denied access to their God-given endowments, it could give rise to another form of militancy in the region.

-IgbereTV