BREAKING: Jonathan plead with Niger Delta youths to shun violence

Formal President, Goodluck Jonathan has asked Niger Delta young people to avoid demonstrations of violence and grasp harmony to facilitate the execution of undertakings that would guarantee the improvement of the district.


Jonathan offered the guidance when authorities of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Worldwide, and Niger Delta Youth Leaders, visited him to sympathize with him over the assault on his home in Otuoke.

The previous President's home in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa, was assaulted on Dec. 24, 2019 by shooters.


Jonathan, while expressing gratitude toward his guests for the worry, rebuked them to avoid any demonstration of viciousness as no country could create in an environment of guiltiness and brutality.

The previous president said that there was no purpose behind the assault, bringing up that he had done his very own part for the advancement Nigeria as country.


He approached security offices to guarantee that the individuals who did the demonstration were brought to book.

Prior, President of IYC, Mr Pereotubo Oweilaemi, had approached security organizations to guarantee the exposing of the culprits of the assault.


"The assault on previous President Jonathan's home at Otuoke is truly humiliating. The culprits of that devious demonstration ought not go unpunished. Security offices ought to guarantee they fish out those criminals.

"We are approaching the neighboring networks around Otuoke to help out the security organizations so as to angle out those criminals," he said.


Additionally, Mr Kennedy West, a young chief, said that it was disheartening that individuals from the district could design an assault on the previous president.

He said that there was no motivation to legitimize that assault.

(NAN)