By DANIEL GUMM

WARRI—ITSEKIRI youths have been urged to remain peaceful in the face of real or perceived provocation from any quarter.

Addressing hundreds of youths of Itsekiri descent in Warri, Delta State, yesterday, who are beneficiaries of the current Federal Government Amnesty Programmes, who had thronged the office of the Itsekiri National Youths Council, INYC, from different Itsekiri communities, alleging discrimination by some officials of the Amnesty Office in Abuja, National Secretary of INYC, Mr. Isaac Dorsu, appealed to the youths to remain peaceful and be patient.

He said that the Itsekiri youth organisation “remains equally worried and apprehensive over the non-committal attitude with which issues relating to the Itsekiri beneficiaries are currently being handled by some of the bureaucrats in Abuja.”

He added: “Our position is that those, whose kiths and kin recently invaded our communities in Warri North Local Government Area with all the invaders immune from arrest and prosecution solely by virtue of their ethnic origin, have further moved their wholesale war of attrition against the Itsekiri to Amnesty Office, Abuja, where their kinsmen superintend.”

He told the youths that contrary to speculations, no official of INYC would ever connive with any government official to the point of mortgaging the interests of beneficiaries of Itsekiri extraction.