The umbrella body for Ijaw youths, Ijaw Youth Council, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to act on his appeals to Niger Delta militants to halt hostilities by personally kick-starting the dialogue process with stakeholders in the region.
A statement signed by the spokesman for the group, Eric Omare, on Sunday, stressed that only a genuine and serious engagement with Niger Delta people would address the recurring agitation from the people.
The group which was reacting to recent appeal by the President, urging the rampaging militants to embrace and halt further attacks on oil facilities in the region, said multiplicity of new militant group was not a barrier to achieving peace if the government was sincere.
It maintained that for a lasting peace to be achieved in the region, President Buhari must be seen leading such discussion, citing instance of his predecessors rather than sending surrogate to negotiate on his behalf.
The IYC statement read, “The Ijaw Youth Council worldwide has just read the appeal by President Buhari to militants in the Niger Delta region to stop attacks on oil installations.
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