By Akinwale Kasali
A Niger Delta Group under the aegis of South-south Youth Initiative, SSYI, has bemoaned the chaotic experience and hardship Nigerians are going through following the removal of fuel subsidy and the hike of Petrol in the past few weeks.
Decrying the sudden hike in price with no concrete plan in place, the Youth Group called for the immediate sack of the Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Mele Kyari.
Imeabe Saviour, speaking on behalf of the National President of the Group said that the NNPCL should be blamed for the present state of the nation as regards the hike in the price of Petrol.
In a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by the Group, it stated that the Group Managing Director of Nigerian, NNPCL, Kyari, should be sacked with immediate effect, stressing that his failure to play an advisory role caused serious problems for the present administration.
“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 Kyari 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.
The Group call on President Tinubu to fire Kyari should he refuse to heed the group’s call within seven days.
It vowed to shut down offices of the NNPCL in South-South states if Kyari remained in office in the next seven days.
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.”
It would be recalled that the Coalition of United Peoples Party, CUPP, had earlier called for the sack of Kyari, which some people had labeled as witch hunt.
