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By David Odama
The leadership of National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Nasarawa State Chapter, Tuesday rejected plan by the Ministry of Youths and Sports Development in collaboration with an external forces to inaugurate an illegally and purported constituted Caretaker Committee for the Nasarawa State Chapter of the Council.
The council in a statement by its publicity, Comr. S. I. Danka, said Constitution and inauguration of the caretaker committee was alien to the 2018 Constitution of the National Youth Council of Nigeria NYCN
According to the statement, the Constitution does not empower the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development or any other office for that matter to dissolve a duly and democratically elected Executive Council of NYCN, Neither is the Ministry empowered to constitute a Caretaker Committee.
“It is imperative to note that the 2018 Constitution of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) does not empower the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development or any other office for that matter to dissolve a duly and democratically elected Executive Council of NYCN, Neither is the Ministry empowered to constitute a Caretaker Committee.
“We wish to reiterate that there is an existing Court Order declaring the suspension of the State Executive Council and the subsequent constitution of a Caretaker Committee by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development null and void for failure to comply with the law governing its affairs.
“Despite the knowledge of this Court Order, we are shocked that the Ministry has not retraced its steps to comply with the Constitution of the Council and the Court Order. It has continued to engage in the flagrant disregard of a subsisting Order of the Court.
“In the light of the foregoing, we wish to categorically state that the State Excutive Council of NYCN under Comr Jaafar Muhammad Loko remains intact in Nasarawa State and there is no need of the appointment of any Caretaker Committee”, the statement declared..
The statement therefore, urged the general public to disregard the plan Constitution of the caretaker committee which they described as act of impunity and attempt to plunge the peace loving youth of Nasarawa into unnecessary crisis.
“We reject in strong terms attempt to plunge our dear state into unnecessary crisis and to divide them along ethnic and religion crisis for selfish interest of some individuals within and outside the ministry of Youth to score a certain political goal at the detriment of young people and the Government”..
“We also wish to draw the attention of the Office of the Honourable Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Secretary to the Government of the state (SSG) as well as Heads of Security Agencies in the state to the illegality perpetrated by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development.
“Let it be on record that we have remained calm in the face of needless provocation and injustice meted on us, and have continued to advocate for peace and decorum among young people in the state.
” However, the Ministry should be held responsible for whatever happens out of this illegality and injustice, Nasarawa state belongs to all of us and we will not allow anybody to place himself above the law and the wills of majority”, the statement stated.
