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NYCN members request reversal of deregistration, vow 30-day nationwide protest
CAC says determination is temporary, assures solution of outstanding issues
By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA — Scores of young Nigerians nether the aegis of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) connected Thursday staged a protestation astatine the office of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) successful Abuja implicit the Commission’s caller deregistration of the council.
The demonstration, led by NYCN President, Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, marked the motorboat of a 30-day continuous protestation demanding the reversal of the deregistration and the removal of CAC Registrar-General, Hussaini Ishaq Magaji (SAN). The protesters accused Magaji of acting portion a ineligible lawsuit connected the substance was inactive pending successful court.
The protestation followed an announcement by the Federal Ministry of Youth that the CAC had withdrawn NYCN’s certificate of registration and appointed a caretaker committee to negociate its affairs, contempt ongoing proceedings astatine the Court of Appeal.
Carrying placards with inscriptions specified arsenic ‘Registrar-General Must Go,’ ‘Respect Court Orders,’ and’Deregistration of NYCN is simply a Security Concern,’ the protesters blocked entree roads to the CAC office portion chanting solidarity songs.
Addressing journalists, Sukubo said the deregistration raised superior concerns astir respect for the judicial process.
“This substance has already been addressed by the Federal High Court and is presently pending earlier the Court of Appeal successful Abuja. We judge it should beryllium resolved done the tribunal process earlier immoderate further administrative action,” helium stated.
Sukubo added that the protestation would proceed nationwide for 30 days until the NYCN was reinstated.
“We volition support peaceful demonstrations until the Council is reinstated. We are besides appealing to applicable authorities to reappraisal this substance due to the fact that of its value to Nigerian youth,” helium said.
Also speaking, NYCN National Secretary, Comrade Gara Nongha, described the deregistration arsenic troubling and called for an contiguous resolution.
“We are present to explicit our concerns implicit the deregistration of NYCN by the CAC. The NYCN is the recognised umbrella assemblage for Nigerian youth, and we question an result that restores its afloat operational status,” Nongha said.
Former NYCN Secretary-General, Barrister Abubakar Suleiman, emphasised that the substance was sub judice and urged that owed process beryllium respected.
“A Federal High Court ruling had antecedently addressed aspects of this issue. We judge that immoderate further steps should travel the judicial process presently nether way,” helium said.
Responding to the protest, Acting Registrar-General and Director of Customer Service astatine CAC, Julius Hanga, explained that the deregistration was impermanent and aimed astatine allowing clip for each pending issues to beryllium resolved.
He added that the Commission was moving to code the substance and that the NYCN would beryllium reinstated connected the CAC portal erstwhile each ineligible and administrative concerns had been afloat settled
The station BREAKING: Protest rocks CAC implicit deregistration of younker council appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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