Oleh – A Niger Delta Peace Advocate and Youth Leader, Comrade Shedrack Agediga, has urged the National Assembly to ignore the memo from Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami SAN seeking to change name of Nigerian Maritime University.
Speaking on the AGF’s memo, which he termed evil, Agediga warned that the directive seeking to change the NMU’s name from Okerenkoko to Okerenghigho, was capable of causing strive and bloodshed among the Ijaws and Itsekiris.
He also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, call on the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Malami SAN, to order regarding his memo of discord and withdraw it in the interest of national security.
Comrade Agediga, who stated this during a press briefing in Warri, Delta State noted that the action of the AGF was a clear invitation to avoidable crisis in the Niger Delta region that had enjoyed relative peace for some time and boosted crude oil production.
He said the AGF’s memo for a change of name of the Maritime University would further plunge the region into another round of crisis particularly in Warri South West between the Ijaws and the Itsekiris.
Agediga recalled that few months back the region was embroiled in crisis due to the resurgence of militant activities which brought crude oil production to its lowest ebb but took the intervention of well meaning leaders, PANDEF including state governors to stabilise the situation before production hit an all time high.
The Niger Delta Youth Leader emphasised that President Buhari’s hands were full with security issues such as the Fulani and herdsmen clashes, Boko Haram in the North East, IPOB in the South East aside kidnapping among others hence it was needless for the AGF to foment another serious crisis via his memo to the National Assembly to change the ancestral name of where the Maritime University was sited.
He said Gbaramatu Kingdom and Delta State should not be used as a theatre of war or a base to test newly acquired military software and urged the National Assembly to ignore the evil memo which was capable on causing strive and bloodshed among the people.
The activist maintained that the National Assembly should summon the AGF on the matter as it was the height of injustice and abuse of public office as the action of some public office holders was inimical to peace and development.
“The action of the AGF is unnecessary, predetermined and a call for anarchy and must not be allowed to happen, while we must stop those persons who deliberately create crisis in the Niger Delta region in order to militarize our communities and create the impression that the region is not safe for development.”
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Ignore AGF’s Memo Seeking Change Of Name For Maritime Varsity, Activist Tells NASS
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