Youth Council dissociates self from protest

• Published date: 13 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The secretariat of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has dissociated itself from a protest action carried out using it's name without authorization at the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Speaking at a Press Conference at the council office at the federal secretariat in Abuja, the National Vice President of the NYCN Ambassador Akoshile Mukhtar described the protest as 'a shambolic exercise using the cover of an institution such as the NYCN'.

Ambassador Akoshile clarified that 'the NYCN is a duly registered organization by the body vested with powers to register corporate bodies in Nigeria the CAC, which registration does not recognize the persons that went to the CBN under the name and mandate of Nigerian youth.'

The Leadership of the NYCN 'expressed shock that in a society governs people would attempt to invoke law even when they themselves and the capacity in which they invoke those laws are not know to the very law they claim to rely on'.

The NYCN went further 'to call on the security agencies to look into characters that carry out illegalities using the name of the federal Republic of Nigeria and a...