Strike: Niger-Delta youths vow to shutdown oil facilities

The Moment

11 January 2012

Strike: Niger-Delta youths vow to shutdown oil facilities

A group, Coalition of Niger Delta Youths, has threatened to shut down oil facilities belonging to various multi-national oil companies in the region if government fails to revert to N65 per litre.

By Ben Dunno, Warri

A group, Coalition of Niger Delta Youths, yesterday, threatened to shut down oil facilities belonging to various multi-national oil companies in the region if government fails to revert to N65 per litre in line with the yearnings of the majority of the Nigerian masses.

The Coalition comprising of the Ijaws of the Niger-Delta, the Itsekiris, Urhobos, Isokos and the Igbo speaking part of Delta State, gathered in their thousands in Warri to stage the peaceful protest, as they marched round some major streets in the area obstructing traffic while chanting anti- Jonathan songs.

Some of the placards carried by the youths have inscriptions such as, ‘Jonathan, don’t impoverish Nigerians,’ ‘Nigeria’s major problem is corruption not subsidy,’  ‘Niger- Delta Youths reject subsidy removal,’ ‘Federal Government tackle insecurity, poverty, hunger,’ ‘Federal Government rehabilitate Nigeria’s refineries now,’ among others.