Unemployment: Youths in Rivers give firms 14-day ultimatum

Young people from Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State have given oil firms and different organizations in the zone a 14-day final offer to begin executing a concession to group advancement and work marked with them years prior.

The young people additionally cautioned firms that had yet to sign any a Memorandum of Understanding with them to do as such inside the following two weeks or danger the shutdown of their offices.

The young people had a week ago close down the OB-OB gas plant having a place with the Nigerian Agip Oil Company in Omoku over an affirmed refusal of the association's administration to interface with them on issues verging on vocation and the improvement of the territory.

In spite of the fact that the office was revived inside 24 hours after NAOC's meeting with a portion of the adolescent pioneers, they (young people) demanded that the firm should start to execute the MoU marked subsequent to 1999.

VP of Omoku Youth Association, Mr. Emeka Ababiri, told The PUNCH in a phone meeting that the young people of the range would keep on pressuring organizations working in the territory to do "the proper thing".

Ababiri noticed that young job and group advancement were contained in each MoU marked with organizations in the territory. He asked why they had declined to execute them.

He said, "We close down an office having a place with Nigerian Agip Oil Company a week ago, yet it was revived the next day. We drew out the Memorandum of Understanding marked subsequent to 1999 and we concurred that they (NAOC) ought to start to execute it.

"We have given them and other oil organizations a 14-day final proposal to start to execute the Memorandum of Understanding we marked with them.

"Oil organizations that are yet to sign any MoU with us ought to do as such inside the following weeks so keep their offices from being closed down.

"We need job. On the off chance that the young people are locked in, wrongdoing will decrease. Be that as it may, when the adolescents are unmoving, such circumstance could prompt an expansion in wrongdoing."

The young pioneer, nonetheless, said that they would keep on interface with firms willing to talk about with them, even as he depicted the general population of the zone as peace adoring.


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