Binaebi Oyeghe > BAYELSA FOCUS GROUP ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE BAYELSA UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES ARREST / A CALL FOR A SOLEMN PROCESSION FOR THE DEAD IMMIGRATION JOB APPLICANTS. Today, the 26th of March 2014 mark the one year anniversary of the unlawful arrest, detention and prosecution of the 23 BAYELSA UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES who exhibited an unsual courage and humanism; in an era characterized by cowardice and an uncivil conduct of violence, to attempted staging a peaceful protest to task the Bayelsa State governor to fulfill his electoral promise of job creation. This intended peaceful march was met with a brutal force, and denied us our fundamental human rights to freedom of expression and association as guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution. For months we were intimidated with the court and the security agents. As law abidding youths who heartily desire the progress and development of Bayelsa state we exhibited yet another rare act patrioticism by our resolve to withdraw the matter from the court because we reasoned that it is not good for children to fight their father in the person of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson. Not surprising, after calling off this case the government officials we were expected to liaise with turn their faces to the other side with a passive detachment and expect the matter to die a natural death forgetting the immortality of a just cause wherein justice is still pending. Unfortunately, government has not learnt any lesson from this impasse and has relegated the issue of job creation to the backseat of government policies, and instead churn out stale propaganda and cruel deception while the graduates roam the streets in search of an elusive economic future and the ghost jobs the government promises to create. While we know that government cannot employ everyone we hold government responsible for job creation, and of course, it is always a mouthwatering electoral promise. As of the graduates who were arrested last year we are now vindicated by the recent stampede and death of NIS job applicants. If graduates in Bayelsa had responded en masse to my clarion call last year the employment prospects would have been brighter in Bayelsa as governments are always fragile to mass action. However, we will not relent in our struggle to secure our economic future. On this note, I am calling on all unemployed graduates for a solemn procession in honour of those youths who died on March 15, in the Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment stampede. A BIGGER DEMONSTRATION NOW IS INEVITABLE! ALUTA CONTINUA! VICTORIA ACERTA! 42 minutes ago
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:08:30 +0000
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