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Why Youths Went On Rampage in Yola, By Zwingina

This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
December 25, 2002
Posted to the web December 27, 2002

By Abel Orih
Yola
Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Hon. Senator Jonathan Silas Zwingina
has attributed the recent violent protests and demonstrations that rocked
Jimeta-Yola, the capital city of Adamawa State to the lopsided way in which the
state government favour a few individuals over the majority.
Senator Zwingina who spoke to THISDAY in his house Jimeta - Yola, said it is
natural for people to react when too much is given to a few while others
suffer.
He said, "there is a particular place where one person was appointed chairman
of a transition committee of a local government and as well appointed as a
chairman of a board in an area where there are so many people looking for an
appointment.
That particular appointment angered those protesting youths and if you listen
to them carefully there is really some justification in their anger.
"You can not have a state where so many people are looking for jobs and you
give one person two jobs, definitely that must create the such of anger that
the youths have recently exhibited".
The Senator availed that those who protested violently are well known in the
state, saying, that "they belong to the Shinco Organisation that has been
virtually spoilt in the state by a lot of privileges and patronage."

   

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