COMMUNIQUE OF THE ALL-IJAW CONFERENCE HELD
AT THE SHERATON AIRPORT HOTEL, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, USA FROM MAY 28th TO
MAY 30th, 2010, UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE IJAW NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THE
AMERICAS (INAA) DURING ITS ANNUAL "BORO DAY" SUMMIT AND 13th "SERVICE
& DEVOTION" AWARD CEREMONY.
Ijaws
from Europe, Caribbean Islands, North & South America and Nigeria,
met
under the aegis of the Ijaw National Alliance of the Americas for its
annual
"Boro Day" summit and 13th “Service &
Devotion” award
ceremony. The Ijaws discussed the current happenings in Ijawland and
the
Nigerian Polity.
The Conference
commiserates with President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan and
the Nigerian People on the sudden passing of our beloved
Servant-Leader, His
Excellency President Umaru Yar’Adua. The Conference also
congratulates the
Nigerian People for the historic, democratic and peaceful transfer of
power;
and Dr. Jonathan on his ascendance to the office of President and
Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Conference
supports the President’s-enunciated primary initiatives, namely:
good
governance, electoral reform, power and energy self-sufficiency, and
zero
tolerance for corruption, and urges the President to expedite action on
these
priority items to bring the dividends of democracy to the Nigerian
people as
soon as possible.
Conference
upholds the sanctity of the Nigerian
Constitution and the inalienable constitutional right of every Nigerian
to
contest election for any office including the presidency. Therefore,
Conference
affirms the right of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to contest the next
Presidential
election in 2011.
The
conference further resolved that:
·
Dr. Goodluck
use the office of the
presidency as a bully pulpit to reorient and return Nigeria to our
traditional
values of honesty, integrity, probity, discipline, dignity of labor,
and
patriotism, thereby engendering the renaissance of Africa’s giant.
·
The
administration should tap the
abundant Nigerian human resources in the Diaspora for public sector
reform and
human capacity development
·
The President
should enshrine
fiscal federalism in Nigeria.
·
Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan should
recognize the deplorable state of education and declare a state of
emergency to
stop the free fall in our educational institutions.
·
The
administration should act with
utmost urgency to regain control of the Amnesty process and
re-assimilation of
the youths into meaningful careers to enable them become productive
citizens of
Nigeria.
Finally,
concerned about the prevailing political atmosphere in Bayelsa State,
Conference resolved to send a delegation of Ijaws in the Diaspora to Bayelsa State.
Prof.
Joe Ebiware
Moderator,
All Ijaw Conference
Julius
Enarusai
President,
INAA
Dr.
Ruben Mietamuno Jaja
Chairman,
Ijaw Foundation Board of Directors
Justus
Wariya
President,
INC North America
Col.
Godfrey Okoro (rtd)
Ijaw
Nation Forum
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