A frontline Niger Delta activist, Mallam Julius Obi, has instructed the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government that youths in the Niger Delta are ready, disciplined and ready to perform national obligations.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on behalf of the United Niger Delta Congress, Obi famous that some youths in the area have proven that such obligations, together with the safety of pipelines, may be entrusted to them.
According to him, the Niger Delta is safer whereas the nation’s crude is flowing primarily based on the truth that youths in the area are doing the job.
“We also address a word to the Federal Government… Nigeria is full of young men and women who are prepared, disciplined and ready to carry national responsibilities,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that being a youth shouldn’t be a disqualification from strategic assignments however, when matched with preparation and character, a national asset.
“We urge the Federal Government to keep opening the doors of strategic national service to young Nigerians who have earned trust the only way it can be earned, by delivery,” Obi added.
Furthermore, he recommended President Tinubu for sustaining the safety reforms in the oil and fuel trade; the National Security Adviser, NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, for coordinating the safety of the nation’s pipelines, and the administration of NNPCL for offering the enabling setting.
Recall that lately the House of Representatives Committee on Host Communities, performing by means of its technical subcommittee, investigated petitions introduced towards some pipeline surveillance contractors and located the allegations towards them unsubstantiated.
The subcommittee really useful the dismissal of the petition, the discontinuation of additional investigation. Reacting to the development, Obi said that it was proper that due course of was adopted, including that environment friendly operations in safeguarding oil and fuel infrastructure in the Niger Delta ought to at all times get a vote of confidence.
