The youths’ letter to Mr. Jonathan stated that, “as part of his promise to create employment for the youths, we heard from reliable sources that President Goodluck Jonathan will flag-off the EPZ project on Friday 14 November, 2014. We want to say unless our communities’ name is attached to the project it must not be flagged-off because our communities, Sokobolou/Yokori, are prominent hosts to the EPZ project.”
Youths from the Sokobolou and Yokiri communities in Burutu local government area of Delta State yesterday asked President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to stop the proposed flag-off of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) project in the state in order to avert another round of crises between the Itsekiris and Ijaws in the state.
In a letter signed by Adowei Binaebi and Daniel Comboye, youth leaders of Sokobolou and Yokori communities respectively, the youths told President Jonathan to stop the flag-off of the EPZ project, scheduled for November 14, 2014 until a disagreement over the exclusion of their communities as hosts of the project was addressed by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.
The youths’ letter to Mr. Jonathan stated that, “as part of his promise to create employment for the youths, we heard from reliable sources that President Goodluck Jonathan will flag-off the EPZ project on Friday 14 November, 2014. We want to say unless our communities’ name is attached to the project it must not be flagged-off because our communities, Sokobolou/Yokori, are prominent hosts to the EPZ project.”
The youths accused Governor Uduaghan of bias in his handling of the disagreement, adding that this was because he is Itsekiri by ethnicity. According to them, instead of settling the disagreement, the governor resorted to lobbying the president to commission the project “for the benefit of his Itsekiri kinsmen.”
Contending that “the project has not been properly named after the communities proposed to host it,” the youths asked Mr. Jonathan to refuse to be dragged into it. They added that the governor had not addressed how award of contracts would benefit host communities. They pointed out that federal government projects in the past were named after host communities, citing the examples of the FTI project in Forcados, the Forcados/Yokiri Integrated project, Escravos Gas To Liguid (EGTL). They then accused the Itsekiri people of seeking to deprive them of their identification with the EPZ project by calling it Ugborodo EPZ project.
The youths stated that the president’s presence to commission the project could “create another tension in addition to the ongoing one in the northeast,” adding that the project should not be inaugurated without first resolving the dispute over its name. According to the youths, “projects are named after the major stakeholders, and in this case, Sokobolou and Yokiri are major stakeholders to the EPZ project.
Youths from the Sokobolou and Yokiri communities in Burutu local government area of Delta State yesterday asked President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to stop the proposed flag-off of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) project in the state in order to avert another round of crises between the Itsekiris and Ijaws in the state.
In a letter signed by Adowei Binaebi and Daniel Comboye, youth leaders of Sokobolou and Yokori communities respectively, the youths told President Jonathan to stop the flag-off of the EPZ project, scheduled for November 14, 2014 until a disagreement over the exclusion of their communities as hosts of the project was addressed by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.
The youths’ letter to Mr. Jonathan stated that, “as part of his promise to create employment for the youths, we heard from reliable sources that President Goodluck Jonathan will flag-off the EPZ project on Friday 14 November, 2014. We want to say unless our communities’ name is attached to the project it must not be flagged-off because our communities, Sokobolou/Yokori, are prominent hosts to the EPZ project.”
The youths accused Governor Uduaghan of bias in his handling of the disagreement, adding that this was because he is Itsekiri by ethnicity. According to them, instead of settling the disagreement, the governor resorted to lobbying the president to commission the project “for the benefit of his Itsekiri kinsmen.”
Contending that “the project has not been properly named after the communities proposed to host it,” the youths asked Mr. Jonathan to refuse to be dragged into it. They added that the governor had not addressed how award of contracts would benefit host communities. They pointed out that federal government projects in the past were named after host communities, citing the examples of the FTI project in Forcados, the Forcados/Yokiri Integrated project, Escravos Gas To Liguid (EGTL). They then accused the Itsekiri people of seeking to deprive them of their identification with the EPZ project by calling it Ugborodo EPZ project.
The youths stated that the president’s presence to commission the project could “create another tension in addition to the ongoing one in the northeast,” adding that the project should not be inaugurated without first resolving the dispute over its name. According to the youths, “projects are named after the major stakeholders, and in this case, Sokobolou and Yokiri are major stakeholders to the EPZ project.
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