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The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has asked the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), the Nigeria Law School and the armed forces to immediately stop the further deployment of Ijaw youths to the northern part of the country.
The IYC at a press briefing yesterday, expressed anger over what it called "senseless killings" of Nigerians and Ijaw indigenes residing in the northern part of the country by members of Boko Haram, saying the people can no longer be used as cannon fodder in the insurgency taking place in the North.
The spokesman of the IYC, Mr. Eric Omare, while briefing journalists in Yenagoa at the end of the National Executive Council (NEC), said the poor security situation in the northern part of the country and the gruesome killings of innocent Nigerians including persons of Ijaw extraction is becoming unbearable and provocative.
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Source: ThisDay Live