Delta Ijaw Youth Assembly, DIYA, has called on the military high command to caution men of the Nigerian Navy to stop the harassment and seizure of speedboats with 200 horse power on the Warri -Burutu – Gbaramatu river axis, explaining that same was capable of causing tension in the creeks.
DIYA, in a statement in Warri, Delta State, by its president, Ebimobowei Oguma, said that there was no reason for the military to stop the use of speedboats with 200 horse power without considering the impact on the economic lives of the people in the guise of searching for pipeline vandals.
The group noted that the Federal Government had not banned the use of Hilux trucks despite their being used by Boko Haram or the movement of Fulani Herdsmen from one place to another following their nefarious activities in different parts of the country.
According to DIYA, “People in the riverine areas going about their legitimate businesses are constantly being harassed by men of the Nigerian Navy in the guise of searching for speedboats with 200 horse power.”
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