“Employ us in the next 7 days or leave” – Ijaw youth tell Chevron

Egbema and Gbaramatu graduates in Warri North and Warri South-West Local Government Areas of Delta State on Wednesday threatened to sack Chevron Nigeria Limited from Ijaw land if they are not able to meet up with an ultimatum of seven days given to them to get them, (Ijaw youth) employed.
The two kingdoms had warned that Chevron’s activities in the state would be frustrated if they do not devise better ways of getting the unemployed youth from the area empowered in the next seven days, stating that the two kingdoms had been treated unfairly by Chevron.
In a petition signed by the chairman, Mr. Ojusin Innoncent , the former students under the backings of KOMBOT Employment Front  drew the attention of  the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNP to their problems, stating  that  Chevron had utterly sidelined Ijaw graduates from Egbema and Gbaramatu kingdoms , and have pushed them aside in terms of employment opportunity.
They affirmed that while their brothers from the South-West and Southeast are constantly recruited after every interview, they have been left to suffer even after they had gone for different interviews as organized by Chevron
They had asked Chevron to recruit the 39 Egbema-Gbaramatu applicants, who, they claimed, did very well in the Ogere training programme and interview.
KOMBOT had also advocated for the return of Ijaw indigenes who were relieved of their jobs by Chevron in February 2011. It further affirmed that it will carry out its threat if the company takes the warnings for granted.

culled from daily post