Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has demanded that 70 per cent of licences to operate modular refineries should be issued to people of Niger Delta extraction.
The council in a statement signed by its president, Pereotubo Oweilaemi and released thursday, said the federal government appeared to favour people from the three major tribes while issuing licences to operate the refineries.
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