The controversy on the issue whether the youths from the South should be sent to northern part of Nigeria for service has been sparked again as the result of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide appeal.
The IYC made the call in the capital city of Bayelsa State, Yenagoa, on April 24, 2014, Thursday. The group urged the leaders of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to put a ban on sending Ijaw youths for service in the North.
The Ijaw organisation also lamented that the current rise of insecurity was being stage-managed by the northern stakeholders, who intended to discredit the president and his development program.
According to them, the activities of Boko Haram Islamist sect cannot be tolerated, however, the lives of Ijaw people may not be scarified in the interests of the North.
IYC spokesperson, Mr Eric Omare, has also called on the Council of Legal Education and the military authorities to stop posting lawyers and soldiers from Ijaw extraction to the North-East.
It would be noted that despite the state of Emergency Rule 820 corps members were this year deployed to Borno for the three weeks orientation course at Malam-Sidi Orientation Camp. The State Government of the neighbouring Yobe on March 13, 2014, promised an adequate security and logistics to the new-comers.
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