A Coalition of 225 Youth Groups mainly from Northern Nigeria, Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Service Chiefs over their failure to secure the nations pipelines against vandals.
In a press statement issued by its spokesman, Comrade Victor Duniya, Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, condemned the award of pipeline surveillance contract to Tompolo, describing it as an empowerment scheme for Niger-Delta Youths, despite the billions of Naira spent on what it called the failed amnesty programme that is exclusively designed for them.
The Coalition was reacting to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC)s award of a N4billion monthly contract for the security of pipelines to the ex-Niger-Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, otherwise known as Tompolo.
According to them, Tompolo should be appointed to replace the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, since the ex-militant leader had been found competent to whip oil thieves into line.
It described the NNPC gesture as against the spirit and letters of the Nigerian Constitution which advocates for federal character in all government dealings.
It also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, Group Executive Director, Upstream of the NNPC Ltd, Adokiye Tombomelye, for promoting ethnic and regional interest over National interest and GMD of NNPC, Mele Kyari, for using his office to reward criminality and treasonable tendencies instead of patriotism.
That each region in the country is faced with its peculiar challenges, hence, the NNPC Ltd and the Federal Government should vote out 4 billion Naira monthly, for youths of the 5 other geo-political zones that are not beneficiaries of the NNPC Ltd gift to Niger Delta Youths.
That we will be forced to take both physical (protest) and legal actions, if the NNPC Limited and the Federal Government failed to revoke the awarded Contract to Tompolos firm in the next Seven (7) days, it demanded.
