We dey beat! – Bayelsa Labour Party gubernatorial candidate, Udengs Eradiri admits the Ijaw Youth Council uses physical assault to discipline members (Video)

Bayelsa Labour Party gubernatorial candidate, Udengs Eradiri, has admitted that the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) physically beat erring members as a form of discipline.

He made the revelation during an interview with Arise TV hosts Rufai Oseni and Dr Reuben Abati.

Reacting to the accusation that he assaulted a person who was live in a radio station when he was the president of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Eradiri said that discipline is part of the responsibility of the IYC, and that at that point, there were a lot of erring members. He said that he himself did not go into the radio station, that the IYC’s machinery for discipline did what was necessary to do at that time. He said that the individuals were not beaten up, they were “disciplined.”

He said, “The IYC has a way of disciplining erring members, and when they went ahead to further, even when there was a court going on, I had to institute the disciplinary machinery of the IYC, and that disciplinary machinery saw to the end of that nonsense.”

He was then asked whether corporal punishment was allowed in the IYC, to which he responded in pidgin English, “We dey beat. The Ijaw Youths beat.”

Watch the video below