Representatives of the Itsekiri National Youth Council from all the three Itsekiri Local Government Areas of Warri North, Warri South and Warri South West Local Government Councils of Delta State, and other parts of Nigeria met at the Community Hall, Ugbuwangwe in Warri South Local Government Area on Monday, 12 April, 2004. The emergency convention had in attendance, representatives of all youths organizations in Itsekiri land, Community Based Organizations, the National Association of Itsekiri Students, members of Association of Internally Displaced Itsekiris, women organizations and Itsekiri Professionals among others. The convention had as its agendum, the recently introduced administrative concoction, tagged " Development Committees" by the Government of Delta State.

Convention –In-Session note with dismay this strange administrative phenomenon, which came as a bill from the executive arm of government and sent to the Delta State House of Assembly and same was speedily passed into law with such amendments which does not only partitioned Itsekiri lands; but gave same to judicially pronounced customary tenants, and got the Itsekiri Nation unredeemably balkanized and decimated in all ramifications.

Convention –In- Session note with dismay the extent to which the executive and legislative arms of government in Delta State could denigrate their constitutional responsibilities to the point of trampling and throwing overboard long settled judicial pronouncements, historical facts, constitutional provisions and cartographic facts simply because Governor James Ibori would want to satisfy the whims and caprices of the Urhobo Progressive Union and their ally, the Ijaw National Congress in their much vaunted desire for expansionism at the expense of the Itsekiri People.

Convention –In –Session took a critical look at this strange administrative/political innovation by Governor James Ibori, and the Urhobu/Ijaw dominated State House of Assembly and consequently came to the conclusion that both arms of government have gone beyond such rational limit to the point of totally negating the letters and spirit of the 1999 constitution; more so when in a state comprising of five distinct ethnic groups, one is being singled out for a particular law of limitless punitive nature. Such policy in the view of convention has no place in modern societies generally governed by the principle of the rule of law; except a deliberate effort is now being put in place by the Delta State Government for orchestrated regression into the middle ages mode of governance, and thus adopt same in all its crudity.

Convention-In-Session note that even though there are three Itsekiris in the State House of Assembly, and a few in the executive arm of government, they are not in position to positively influence and prevent the Urhobo/Ijaw dominated government of Delta State from treading along its chosen ethnocentric path strewed with hate and anti-Itsekiri thought patterns and world-view.

After a thorough deliberation, Convention-In-Session resolved as follows;

Chairman, Communiqué Committee Secretary, Communiqué Committee

May 2004