IYC flays security agencies for refusing to arrest Arewa youths

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, Monday, lambasted the police, the Department of State Security (DSS) and other security agencies for failing to arrest the Arewa youth leaders, who issued quit notice to Igbo residents in the north.

IYC, an umbrella body of Ijaw youths, in a statement signed by its President, Mr. Eric Omare, said treating the northern youths with kid gloves smacked of double standard on the part of security agencies.

“The Arewa youths quit notice to Igbos living in the north to vacate the north by October 1, 2017 amounts to grave threat to national security and the indivisibility of the country.

“However, the relevant security agencies have deliberately kept a deaf ear to the security threat posed by the Arewa youths treasonable quit notice”, Omare said.

He argued that if a similar threat had been issued by youths from other parts of the country especially the Niger Delta region, communities such as Kaiama, Okerenkoko, Warri, Yenagoa and the entire Niger Delta region would have been under security siege.

 

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