By FESTUS AHON
UGHELLI—Niger Delta Youth Movement, NDYM, yesterday, threw its weight behind the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government.

It argued that it was the surest way of getting the resources needed to create millions of jobs for the youths and provide the wherewithal to build a solid economic foundation for the future.

NDYM in a statement  after its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Ughelli, Delta State, called on “youths in all the geo-political regions in Nigeria to shun any invitation or call to protest against this well intentioned measure geared towards the survival of the masses.”

The communiqué by its National President and Secretary, Mr Godspower Odenema, said  “the entire youths of the Niger Delta are actively ready and prepared to support Mr. President’s pragmatic measures aimed at correcting and adequately addressing the deficiencies of the past and consolidate on the progresses the nation has made since 1999.

“As strict adherents to ‘no pain, no gain’ philosophy of life, we are certainly sure that the removal of subsidy, as is being experienced now, will definitely inflict  short-term pains and sufferings in the citizenry but this will ease off in the long-run to the overall benefit of Nigerians. And so we prefer a short-term pain with subsidy removal to a perpetual pain with non-removal of petroleum subsidy,” he added.