By Emem Idio

YENAGOA- THE Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide has waded into the alleged employment rip-off rocking the Niger Delta Improvement Fee NDDC, calling for swift interventions.

In an announcement issued at Ijaw Home in Yenagoa, by the Council’s Spokesman Comr.Ebilade Ekerefe, the group said that it was worrisome to think about that duly employed and documented youths of the area have been left stranded for over a yr.

The group stated: “If certainly duly certified youths of the area have been employed and documented by the NDDC since August 2019, it stands to motive for them to be promptly deployed to renew.

“As a bunch reputed for transparency and equity, we can not flip a blind eye to such show of oppression and inhumanity meted on our brothers and sisters who’re stakeholders as effectively within the area.”

“Within the meantime, we on the IYC had additionally acquired moderately disturbing information of the passing of among the beneficiaries of the stated 2019 employment as a result of melancholy occasioned by the lengthy fruitless wait, having resigned from their former jobs following profitable documentation with the NDDC.

“We, due to this fact, urge the Honorable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, the Chairman Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Peter Nwaboshi, and the Chairman, Home of Representatives Committee on NDDC, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo to direct the swift launch of the deployment letters to the affected workers to keep away from brewing disaster and unrest within the area.

“Extra so, this as a youth empowerment scheme was made doable solely because of the sacrifices made by distinguished Niger Delta freedom fighters like these of Main. Jasper Isaac Adaka Boroh.”

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Regardless of the assertion launched by the Presidency, the Ondo State Authorities has insisted that no herdsman can graze on the state-owned forest reserve with out permission.

The State Commissioner for Agricultural and Rural Improvement, Adegboyega Adefarati, mentioned over 50,000 farmers have been registered to interact in varied agricultural actions in state’s forest reserves, insisting that no herder will probably be permitted to graze with out going by the due registration.

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had given herdsmen a seven-day trip ultimatum to vacate the forest reserves within the state.

The governor had mentioned legal components who’ve infiltrated the ranks of the Fulani herdsmen have turned the forest reserves into dens of kidnappers.

Subsequently, the Presidency on Tuesday defended the suitable of the herders to dwell anyplace within the nation, saying the governor can’t “unilaterally oust 1000’s of herders who’ve lived all their lives within the state on account of the infiltration of the forests by criminals”.

However in a press release on Wednesday titled, ‘Ondo State Authorities Forest Reserves Insurance policies And Regulation’, the state agriculture commissioner mentioned it was unlawful for herdsmen to encroach on the state-owned forest reserves.

The assertion partly learn, “We have now registered over fifty (50,000) 1000’s of farmers who interact in several types of agricultural actions in Ondo State Authorities Forest Reserves. With this, we regulate their actions and cut back criminality as we interface every day with farmers.

“Find it irresistible or depart it; farming is farming, be it crop manufacturing or animal husbandry. If any Nigerian regardless of his/her State of origin needs land for farming in Authorities Forest Reserves, he/she should apply to Ondo State Ministry of Agriculture and pay the traditional charge for the required hectares of land. It’s unlawful for herdsmen to encroach Ondo State Authorities Forest Reserves with out permission and graze on the farms, a lot of which will probably be destroyed.

“Let me say it time and again that no exercise (looking, planting crops and animal rearing) could be accomplished in Ondo State Forest Conservation with out permission. The legal guidelines guiding Ondo State Forest are clear and concise on it.”

The suspects after they had been arrested

Some organisers of a strip social gathering and kidnappers in Kwara state have landed in deep trouble after getting arrested.

In keeping with Kwara State police, a member of a infamous gang who deliberate to organise strip/bare social gathering in chosen locations within the Ilorin metropolis was arrested on Wednesday.

He was recognized as Akinsola Babatunde, aka Mr White and paraded alongside some kidnappers.

The state police commissioner, Mohammed Bagega, mentioned that credible intelligence carried out on the felony actions of the gang led to the arrest of the suspect at No.16, Achimugun avenue, Flower Backyard, Ilorin.

The police boss, who mentioned that the organizers of the strip social gathering had marketed the present on social media for potential subscribers at N20,000 per individual, added that they deliberate to carry it in lounges, clubhouses, service flats and so on. within the metropolis and its environs.

Bagega mentioned: “Immoral and unlawful motion of Mr White and his accomplices clearly contradicted the COVID-19 protocol, including that it promoted crime and criminality.

“Operatives of the State Intelligence Bureau, connected to the command, carried out a string operation involving tactical undercover and manoeuvre. We truly performed together with them by posing as one of many individuals. We paid the marketed sum of cash to a given checking account. With the cooperation of the opposite stakeholders, we nabbed the suspect whereas he went to money the cash within the financial institution.

“Effort is ongoing to arrest the fleeing members of the gang and they are going to be charged to courtroom as quickly because the investigation is accomplished.”

Additionally paraded had been two of the suspected kidnappers of 4 Turkish nationals that had been kidnapped and rescued in July 2019 at Gbugbu village in Edu native authorities space of the state by the police.

“In a concerted effort by the lads of the command and members of the neighborhood, 4 of the six-armed gang had been arrested with one AK47 rifle as on the time of the incident, the victims had been rescued alive with out cost of ransom.

“The arrested kidnappers talked about the suspects being paraded at present, who had escaped as being members of their syndicate. Ever for the reason that command has been within the seek for the 2 fleeing suspects. Actionable intelligence, nonetheless, indicated that the suspects had been planning to hold out one other operation and my operatives swoop on them and had been arrested. Through the investigation, the suspects confessed to be members of the kidnap syndicate that kidnapped the 4 Turkish residents. Additionally they confessed to have participated in a number of different kidnap incidents, particularly alongside Enugu/Abakaliki axis of the South East of the nation.”