The Ijaw Youth Council Abuja /Northern Nigeria Chapter has called on the federal government to immortalize Late Major Jasper Isaac Adaka Boro and give honors him with a post humors national grand commander of the Niger GCON Award for paying the supreme prize in fighting for the emancipation of the Niger Delta and the unity of the Nigerian state.
Comrade Emmanuel Deinma Chairman of Abuja/Northern Nigeria Chapter made the plea at a ceremony commemorating the 56th celebration of the death of the late freedom fighter Isaac Adaka Boro at the Unity Fountain Maitama Abuja.
The Chairman while applauding President Tinubu for the recent appointment of Dr Dennis Otuoaru as the substantive Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Program which also brought about the appointment of Comrade Adams Marbo as the Head of Peace Building and Conflict Resolution/Stakeholders Management to the Administrator urge him to listen to the yearnings of the ijaws by increasing the budget of The PAP to meet up with the economic realities of the time.
Also speaking Benjamin Edubamor and Comrade Sinclair George, critical stakeholders of the iyc on their part called on the Federal Government to inculcate the story of Jasper Adako Boro and the ijaw struggle in the school curriculum of Nigeria so it can be taught in schools across the country.
Comrade Joyce Efeka the woman leader of IYC Abuja/ Northern Nigeria Chapter called on women, youths and stakeholders to continue to emulate the late freedom fighter and teach their children the history and legacies of the hero stating that it was from the agitation of the late icon that brought about the creation of states of the Niger Delta which made it possible for women and the Niger Delta region to to be recognized and adhered to in the Affairs of the country.
The chapter also visited the orphanage and presented various food items and later had a football tournament in honor of the late Ijaw legend Jasper Adaka Boro in Abuja.
