Yoruba socio-cultural group, the National Committee of Yoruba Youths (NCYY), has condemned the call for the sack of the Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Kingsley Kuku, by a group.
The group, Niger-Delta Awareness Coalition and Ex-Militant Forum, recently called for the sack of Mr Kuku, on the allegation of fraud.
Addressing reporters yesterday in Ibadan, the President of NCYY, Odeyemi Oladimeji, described the group as faceless adding that it was hired by desperate politicians to start campaign of calumny against Kuku.
"We have carefully watched events as they unfold in our nation and this is another method by some people to destroy the legacy of a man, who symbolises anything good that could come out of the Yoruba race and Nigerian youths.
"We have taken this as a concern not because of the person involved, but also because some of our promising youths are being induced by some politicians and ethnic chauvinists to distract Kuku and the amnesty programme" he said.
According to Oladimeji, since the beginning of the programme in 2010, about 20,000 Niger-Delta youths have been trained at home and abroad in vocational skills.
The NCYY president added:" With PAP, Niger-Delta youths, whose violent agitation almost brought our country to a standstill economically, are well trained and the country's crude production, which fell from 2.2 million barrels per day to as low as 700,000 barrels per day,is now between 2.4 million and 2.6 million barrels per day."
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