The Niger Delta Youths Coalition for Peace and
Progress (NDYCPP) says the recent laurels and honorary citizenships awarded to
Dr Ibe Kachikwu was well deserved.
Mr Tiedor Olayinka
President of NDYCPP said in Yenagoa on Saturday that the global honours had
vindicated the group
Kachikwu, was on Thursday conferred with
multiple honours, including honorary citizenship of the State of Georgia in the
United States.
Kachikwu was also conferred with honorary doctorate degree by the Trinity International University of Ambassadors, and Keys to the State of South Carolina and City of Stonecrest, State of Georgia.
The event, which held at the Capitol Hill of the state in Atlanta, also featured the declaration of October 25 as `Emmanuel Kachikwu Day’ by the State of South Carolina.
Olayinka in a reaction
to the development urged those behind the smear campaign against Kachikwu to
leave him alone to concentrate on his achievements.
”These feats buttress
our initial claim that the man is an exceptional fellow, a quintessential
scholar, a doyen in his field.
“This is the calibre of
person an infinitesimal few want to blackmail . A prophet is not recognized in
his community. The rejected stone that is now a chief Conner stone, a gold fish
has no hiding place.
“They say when you chase
after a chic you're encouraging it to spread wings and fly. Kachikwu is
the first minister who has won the heart of the youths, elders, the ex
militants alike.
“He is an upright man,
that command enormous respect from the people. We won't have any body, no
matter how highly placed you are to discredit, rubbish his hard earned
reputation,” Olayinka said..
Olayinka noted that it
was an irony that Kachikwu,a man respected and acknowledged worldwide targeted
by mediocres to rundown out of envy and warned that Niger Delta youths would no
longer tolerate further attack on him.
“Enough is enough. Gone
are those days when they insinuated that Niger Delta people do not love
themselves, or will sacrifice their own on the altar of stipends and personal
gains.
“We are a people so
conscious of ourselves and our contribution towards the peace, unity and
economic growth of this Nation. If we were fools before, we are no more. We
know who are behind this evil orchestration.
“But our silence should
not be mistaken for cowardice.This evil act could snowball to something
catastrophic. Let the detractors behind those smear campaigns repent while it
is still day.
“Leave kachikwu alone.
We won't sit and fold our arms while our very own suffer untold hardship in
that hands of evil men at the corridors of power. A stitch in time saves nine,”
Olayinka said.
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