Tag: Tompolo

Pipeline Contract: Replace Service Chiefs with Tompolo, Northern Youths tell Buhari
…Demand revocation of pipelines contract in seven days

Aminu Imam

A Coalition of 225 Youth Groups mainly from Northern Nigeria, Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Service Chiefs over ‘their failure’ to secure the nation’s pipelines against vandals. In a press statement issued by its spokesman, Comrade Victor Duniya, Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, condemned the award of pipeline surveillance contract to Tompolo, describing it as an empowerment scheme for Niger-Delta Youths, despite the billions of Naira spent on what it called “the failed amnesty programme’ that is exclusively designed for them. The Coalition was…

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N/Delta: Kaduna Group fumes over the award of pipeline surveillance contract to Tompolo

Aminu Imam

…Calls for Sylva, Kyari, others’ removal A group, Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups yesterday kicked against the award of the pipeline surveillance contract to an ex-militant leader of the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta, (MEND) Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo by the Federal Government. The group, in a statement by its Spokesman, Comrade Victor Duniya, said it received the news of the award of a pipeline surveillance contract worth over N4bn monthly by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd to Tompolo with rude shock. According to him, the group…

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Ex-militant leader, Tompolo, wins multi-million dollar contract to curb oil theft

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd has renewed a multi-million dollar pipeline surveillance contract to a former militant leader and Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo. It was gathered that the government and the NNPC signed the deal with Tompolo to end illegal bunkering, illegal refining and other forms of oil theft in the Niger-Delta region. A source close to Tompolo, who spoke in confidence, said the deal was worth over N4billion monthly. However, the figure and details of the…

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