Niger Delta organization laments suffering, calls for Kyari’s dismissal

The South-South Youths Initiative, a Niger Delta organization, has lamented the hardship brought on by the elimination of fuel subsidies nationwide.

The group bemoaned the abrupt termination of the subsidies and the fact that there was no clear plan in place.

Imeabe Saviour, the group’s National President, spoke on behalf of the organization and attributed the petroleum industry’s issues to the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.

Saviour also demanded the dismissal of Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, in a statement released on Saturday and made available to journalists in Abuja.

Saviour said that Kyari should be fired since his refusal to serve as an advisor has caused the current administration severe issues.

“Kyari has failed to make justice to his first role of advising the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the right policies to implement and at the right time to do so.

“We are calling on Kyari to resign his position immediately for failing to offer good advice to Mr. President. It is because of his actions and inactions that the entire country is in this present hardship.

“In sane climes, when a public office holder fails to carry out his functions effectively and the result of such action leads to some negative impact on the people, they willingly resign their position as a mark of showing remorse.

“We want Kyria to show this remorse that he has caused millions of Nigerians untold hardship. His resignation is important to Nigerians. We also want him to apologise to Nigerians for his failure to know what his functions are in the office he currently occupies, which includes providing advisory roles to the President,” Saviour said.

Saviour urged President Bola Tinubu to sack Kyari if he didn’t heed their request within a week.

He threatened that if Kyari was still in office after the next week, group members would shut down NNPCL offices in South-South states.

He said, “However, if the president fails to sack him after he refuses to resign within seven days, we will have no option but to shut down the offices of NNPCL in the States of South-South. This is not a threat, it is a promise we the youths of this nation will implement for the sake of the suffering masses.”