
- Youths within the Niger Delta region are friendly, peace loving, entertaining having the tendency of receiving stranger to their own detriment. This is the case between multinational, federal Government and host communities in Niger Delta.
- The uncultured attitude of multinational with the aid from federal Government made the peace loving youth to oft to violent as the only language they understand.
- Youths within the Niger Delta region is expose to quiet a lot of challenges given to the surrounding prevailing circumstance of their terrain.
- The exploration and exploitation of multinational corporations, the concept of Federal Character Principle not upheld in the Nigerian state, the mismanagement of public resource accrued to the region by her representatives.
- The menace called poverty, lack of access to the international community, environmental and ecological damages, low level of education, enterprising skills including a host of other.
- These and many others have made the youths in the region take to hostility within the past decades. Successive administration have deem it necessary to address the Niger Delta issues all have showed a lacuna in the implementation process that often result to target not been achieved.
- Ranging from Edo to Cross River states the entire Niger Delta region is in a deplorable state. We lack basic amenities, (light, road, potable drinking water, shelter) access to raw material for food is denial given to the activities of multinationals, mortality rate is declining by per seconds billing rate as gas flaring have become a big business between multinational and Government in Nigeria, poverty is an understatement to explain the conditions of people living within the region, the Niger delta region have
often been described as war zone: it’s the only region in Nigeria that the presence of soldiers is more than citizens police, they engage in extra judicial killings, rapes, extortion of commercial commuters’, becoming thugs for their so called girl friend to the detriment of the average citizens.
- The problem of the Niger Delta is not a question of resource control agitation, militancy as often described by many. But the region wants to see justifications from the federal state and local government of the huge fund that’s taken from the region and also from multinationals that explore crude oil from the region too. What today is seen in Nigerian Niger Delta region can’t be obtainable anywhere in the world today; that is the yearning and aspiration of the SSYLF. People, government multinationals needs to become accountable to their actions and activities in the Niger Delta region. International community must participate in the fight to re-radicalize Niger Delta region for the profitability of mankind.
- The Niger Delta is endowed with inherent and natural potentials that can impact the world economy. If nothing is done today, it should be known that the world at large will face a greater threat that will destabilize her peace in the next twenty years to come.
- The people of the ND region must be integrated her own development plan program and policies that the Nigeria state and world must appreciate and work with, people within the region must be given fair hearing in both international and local issues. Community participation in each stratum of political social financial economic environment cultural matters must be upheld within and outside the region.
- SSYLF is an umbrella body of all the youth groups within the region. It is a participatory body at all the stratum of the Niger Delta life. It ensures the overhauling of development, environment, political, economic, financial, socially and cultural issue in the Niger Delta region.
To make the Niger Delta melting pot for truly indigenous, industrial and technological advancement and Sustainable Local Wealth Creation. Strategic Project Benefit to the Region. Read more
-Comunique (Edo State. Sunday 12th June, 2010)
-Comunique (Calabar. Cross Rivers State.29th April, 2010)
- Comunique (Calabar. Cross Rivers State.11th June, 2010)
- Obasanjo, Stop the killing of our people
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