Youth Coalition Force for Niger Delta has warned the Federal Government to reconsider its decision to scrap the proposed maritime university or become the enemy of the Niger-deltans.
President Muhammadu Buhari
The Federal Government has been warned by some Niger Delta youths, under the aegis of Youth Coalition Force for Niger Delta, to stop its plan of scrapping the Nigerian Maritime University, sited at Okerenkoko, in the Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.
The youths who have expressed their mind through a petition to the National Assembly said their warning came after a recent statement credited to the Minister for Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, that there was a plan to scrap the Nigerian Maritime University.
In a statement on Monday by its spokesperson, Gabriel Godson-Ndinwa, YCFND said it found Amaechi’s statement not only embarrassing and humiliating but also to be a reflection of the “negative perspective of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration on the Niger Delta Region.”
Punch reports that the group called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately clarify matters and disown Amaechi on the planned scrapping of the Nigerian Maritime University or be tagged “an anti-Niger Delta.”
The group urged the president to direct the acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Haruna Jauro, to immediately release the N2bn take-off grant which NIMASA had earlier approved for the university but which Jauro allegedly stopped by directing United Bank for Africa not to release the fund to the university.
It claimed that other institutions, such as Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State and the Federal University Kashere, Gombe State had already benefited from the take-off grant which was approved in the 2015 by the Federal Legislative Council and the Federal Government and does not know why the delay.
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