By Deborah Coker
The Ijaw National Congress (INC) says time has come to take the “Ijaw struggle” beyond Nigeria.
The INC stated this position in a communique at the end of 2024 edition of the Ijaw National Day Celebration held in Yenagoa.
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the communique was signed by Prof. Benjamin Okaba, President of INC.
Okaba said that the vexatious factors that provoked grievances between the late Maj. Adaka Boro and the federal government in the improper management of the oil political economy of Nigeria, had remained unmitigated.
He noted that the situation had worsened with its attendant impunity.
According to him, the Ijaw environment continues to bear the brunt of petroleum resources exploitation-related pollution without concomitant remediation or reparations of the heavily despoiled ecosystem.
“Instead, Ijaw communities still face the adverse effects of uncontrollable spills, perennial flooding, ocean encroachment and so on.”
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Source: News Agency of Nigeria
