• IYC warns, urges Tinubu to address hardship, relocate IOCs to N’Delta

Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd), has assured the youths of Niger Delta of massive employment from International Oil Companies (IOCs) when vocational training centres are fully activated across the oil rich region.

  
According to the Interim Administrator, the long-standing complaint by IOCs remained that youths in the region lacked requisite industry skills for employment, a narrative, he noted, that the PAP was working hard to change.
  
Ndiomu stated this, yesterday, in an interview with newsmen at the Amnesty Office in Abuja. He expressed strong commitment of PAP to complete and activate all vocational training centres across the region to help the amnesty programme reach its full potential and ensure sustainability of livelihoods.
  
Ndiomu, who insisted that the Amnesty Programme has served its purpose, said there are some areas that have not reached its full potential, especially the completion of vocational training centres. 
  
He said: “If we are able to complete these centres, we can now domicile training of restive youths in the region. One of the things I have been doing since I came on board is to source for funds to complete these projects.”

MEANWHILE, the umbrella body of Ijaw youths worldwide, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), has, again, warned President Bola Tinubu to, without further delay, activate plans to relocate the headquarters of the International Oil Companies (IOCs) to the Niger Delta or face dire consequences.
  
The youth body also urged Tinubu to immediately address the hardship being faced by Nigerians, as citizens are yet to see specific economic recovery plans, which the Federal Government, under Tinubu, is making to make life easier for the masses.
  
A statement signed by its spokesman, Benabia Princewill, said that Nigerians are dying of hunger and suffering like never before from the policies of the Federal Government. 
   
It stated that, as a council, they expected that the President, his National Security Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the National Executive Council and other relevant agencies would take their warning seriously, as they will not accept anything other than the urgent relocation of these companies’ headquarters back to the region.