Tag: Tompolo

Tompolo exposes IOCs, security officials, oil bunkerers behind Nigeria’s oil theft

Aminu Imam

Uncovers 16 hidden tapping points on transit pipelines The Niger-Delta ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, says surveillance outfit Tantita Security Services Limited, has discovered major tapping points on the Trans-Forcados/Ramos Pipeline in Delta State, through which International Oil Companies (IOCs), foreign ships, security officials, oil bunkerers, and locals have colluded to bleed the country over the years. The ex-militant strongly accused the security agencies of being behind the stealing of Nigerias crude oil. According to him, he discovered the breaches after the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited,…

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War against Crude oil theft:Tompolos gunboats storm N/Delta creeks with over 1,000 youths as marine guards

Aminu Imam

There is tension in the creeks of the Niger Delta region following the deployment of dozens of gunboats and an army of youths in the waterways by a former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, to fish out pipeline vandals, illegal refiners and illegal oil installations. Recall that the former commander of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) recently won an N4.5bn monthly surveillance contract from the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to secure pipelines and oil installations in Delta and some…

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NNPC Pipelines Contract: Niger-Delta militants at war

Aminu Imam

…Asari Dokubo, others oppose Tompolo The dust raised by the NNPCL N4.5 billion annual pipeline surveillance contract awarded to former leader of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta, (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, may not have settled down but it has effectively torn the militants in the oil rich region apart. Obviously rattled by how the Federal Government sensationally mentioned Tompolo as the sole supervisor of the pipeline security deal, another leading Niger Delta freedom fighter, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, sounding crestfallen and certainly dejected wondered why his comrade…

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“Reverse Tompolos N4.5bn pipeline contract or wait for anarchy” – Rita Lori to FG

Aminu Imam

Rights activist and veteran broadcaster, Chief (Mrs.) Rita-Lori Ogbebor, has called for the withdrawal of the pipeline contract awarded to the leader of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, otherwise known as Tompolo. Lori, who spoke at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, while lamenting the spate of anarchy in the region, decried the lukewarm attitude of the Federal Government over the proliferation of ammunition across the country, especially in the Niger-Delta region. She insisted that the withdrawal of the pipeline contract awarded to Tompolo will…

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Tompolo: ‘NNPC promoting criminality with N48bn surveillance contract’ CISLAC boss

Aminu Imam

The Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, has condemned the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) for awarding an N48 billion surveillance contract to an ex-militant, Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo. The CISLAC boss, who made this known in an issued statement yesterday, queried whether the value of the investments and allocations made from the national treasury to the numerous security paraphernalia in Nigeria if an ex-militant is seen to be more competent to deliver on security issues than the entire armed…

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Niger Delta: “Stay away from Kalabari”, Dokubo-Asari warns Tompolo, soldiers

Aminu Imam

…Parades with unknown gunmen The ex-Niger-Delta militant and founder, Niger-Delta People Volunteer Force, (NDPVF), Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has cautioned the leader of the moribund Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta, (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, who the Federal Government awarded a pipeline surveillance contract, last month, and soldiers working with him, to keep away from oil pipelines in his Kalabari territory, Rivers State. According to Dokubo-Asari, said the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, spite him by awarding the pipeline surveillance contract in Rivers State to Tompolo, bragged…

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Tension in Niger Delta, as Asari Dokubo opposes Tompolos N4.5bn pipeline contract

Aminu Imam

There is tension in the Niger-Delta region following the decision of the self-proclaimed freedom fighter and founder of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), Asari Dokubo, to oppose the N4.5bn monthly pipeline surveillance contract awarded a former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo. The aggrieved Dokubo, in a viral video, said it smacked of greed for Tompolo to be in charge of pipeline protection for all the ethnic groups in the Niger Delta. Dokubo wondered why Tompolo would be in charge of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers States, querying whether…

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N48bn NNPC Pipeline Surveillance Contract: AIbom youths warn Tompolo, others against securing oil pipelines in their area

Aminu Imam

Youths of Ibeno, an oil and gas-rich community in Akwa-Ibom State, have warned ex-militant warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a. ‘Tompolo’, and other militants to stay in their territory in the name of protecting pipelines. Speaking under the aegis of the Ibeno Men-Clue Development Association, the youths expressed dismay over the award of N48 billion pipeline surveillance contracts to Tompolo by the federal government, adding that as an oil-producing local government area that host ExxonMobil, they do not need ex-militants to safeguard oil facilities that pass through their territory. They maintained that…

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‘Tompolos surveillance contract ploy to siphon Niger-Deltas wealth’ INC

Aminu Imam

The Ijaw National Congress, (INC), which is the apex umbrella organisation for all Ijaws, urged stakeholders in the Niger Delta not to allow the pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Chief Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a Tompolo, to be a source of internal conflict that will cause destabilisation and insecurity in the region. The INC President, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, gave the advice during an interface with some concerned Ijaw youth groups on the trending oil pipeline surveillance contract at Ijaw House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Okaba said the people of the Niger-Delta, particularly those…

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Pipeline Surveillance: Tension, asN’Delta youths agitating for a slice of Tompolo’s contract

Aminu Imam

The new pipeline surveillance contract given by the NNPC Limited to the ex-Niger-Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, has triggered a crisis, with Ijaw youths agitating for a slice of the contract. Ekpemupolo was the former commander of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND). However, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) has moved to douse the tension by inaugurating a committee to interface with the angry youths. The INC President, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, performed the inauguration of the five-member committee at the Ijaw House, Yenagoa,…

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