The Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Forum (NDENYLF) on Wednesday staged a protest at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited
By Emmanuella Anokam
The Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Forum (NDENYLF) on Wednesday staged a protest at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) Towers, Abuja calling on its Group CEO, Mr Bashir Ojulari to quit.
The group demanded that the GCEO should be replaced over alleged corruption and mismanagement.
The youths also demanded for the appointment of an indigene of the Niger Delta region as the GCEO of the oil giant.
They arrived at the towers in their numbers and blocked the entrance and exit gates of the company, holding banners, with different inscriptions, while chanting solidarity songs.
On one of the inscriptions on the banners, the coalition called for the replacement of the GCEO over alleged corruption.
They also called for the reopening of the Port Harcourt Refinery and restoration of all indigenes of the Niger Deltans sacked by Ojulari.
The protest disrupted vehicular traffic on the roads, while security agents were seen appealing to the protesters, trying to maintain orderliness and ensuring a free flow of traffic.
Motorists and NNPC Ltd. workers were forced to park their cars far away from the gates of the towers due to the protest.
Management of NNPC Ltd. later went into a close door meeting with some officials of the coalition of Niger Delta Youth leaders, while normalcy returned.
Comrade Edet Eyo, President, Oro Youth Movement (OYOM), said that after meeting with the management who promised to look into their demands, they decided to go into consultation with their members to suspend the protest. (NAN)(www.nananews.ng)