Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), yesterday rejected another planned militarization of the Niger Delta codenamed Operation Crocodile Smile billed to take off this Saturday.
The second round of the ongoing military campaign, said the Ijaw youths was “unwarranted” and warned the President to call it off for peace to reign in the south-south geopolitical zone.
This was contained in a statement by it's spokesman, Daniel Dasimaka. he said despite Buhari's promise to dialogue with the youths in the region, the army went ahead with the ongoing campaign and this, he said, could breach the fragile peace in the area.
He said: ''the deployment of troops epitomises the government’s hypocrisy towards the Niger Delta.”
''We therefore urged President Buhari to heed the advice of the United States and United Kingdom that military approach to the challenges in the region would never work but only spark unmitigated disaster''
“Just as the former British Foreign Secretary and current Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, rightly warned last year, that “the idea that Buharis’s answer to the problems in the Niger Delta is by moving big chunks of the Nigerian army to the Delta simply doesn’t work’, so also operation crocodile smile won’t be any different,” it said.
''The Federal Government would do well by channelling the resources meant for Operation Crocodile Smile to start developing the region by setting up fabrication plants, agro allied activities and other industrial projects that would engage Niger Delta youths”., he added.
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