MEND Pulls Out From IYC

The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, Rivers State Chapter says the group has pulled out from the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC.
MEND said the decision to discontinue affiliation with the Ijaw Youth Council especially with the present crop of National Executive was predicated on the gross irregularities of vote buying, monetization and outright hijack of the struggle platform by politicians and Governments in power at the just concluded National Elections of the Ijaw Youth Council on the 18-19th July, 2020 at Oporoza in the Gbaranmatu Kingdom of Delta State.
The group in a statement signed by MEND Chairman Prince Amaibi Hornsby and the Vice Chairman, Edeye Granville and copy made available to The Tide said the pull out was with effect from 25 th August 2020.
MEND noted that the IYC is a product of the various organizations of the struggle platform for the socio economic and political emancipation of the Ijaw Nation as a sub national group within the so called Nigerian State, of which MEND had been one of the constituent unit.
“From the foregoing, following an extraordinary meeting of Congress and due consultations with stakeholders and leaders in the struggle, it is obvious that the Ijaw Youth Council has  become  too weak to represent the IJAW NATION to tackle and  confront the problems that have been plaguing us as a people nor project the issues, challenges and the demands of the Ijaw People in any fora, hence the pull out,”, MEND said.
Prince Amaibi Hornsby insisted that the pull out remained the only option to save and strengthen the ideals of the struggle.
The statement added that MEND, as a very credible organisation would go to the drawing board to come up with the new way to go.

By: Chinedu Wosu