Former Niger Delta agitators Mujahid Asare Dokubo and Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a Tompolo are on warpath following the pipeline security contract awarded by the Federal government to Tompolo.
Asare Dokubo who is the founder of the Niger-Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF), is raging over how the FG summarily, awarded the contract to protect the pipe-lines criss-crossing the Niger Delta region to Tompolo who was the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND), in their days ‘fighting’ for better government presence in the ravaged oil producing region.
Asare Dokubo warned Tompolo to stay away from Bayelsa and Rivers States. He said in a video circulating on social media: “You (Tompolo) took pipeline contract in Delta, your place, and then you come to Kalabari to take pipeline contract because you are an Ijaw man; because only you know how to chop.
“You take from Gbaramatu land, you take Itsekiri people own, you take Urhobo people own, you take Isoko people own, you take Kwale people own, you take all.
“You take the whole of Bayelsa own and then you come to Kalabari. If Timipre Sylva gave you because he wants to clip my wings, when he was a House of Assembly member, did I clip his wing?
“I am older than he is. When he was governor, did I clip his wings? That I am becoming too powerful, so he connived and gave pipeline contract so that he will destroy what we are doing to make the government he is part of, stable.
“Therefore, he brought Tompolo and Tompolo gathered people and told them he would buy guns and give them. Let them come. I am not boasting. I think soldiers will guard him here. Let them come. I did not talk about Rivers state. I said Kalabari. They cannot take it. Let them take any place they like, not Kalabari.
“You are collecting over N4.5 billion a month for doing nothing and people come to Oporoza to support you. Leave the pipeline in Kalabari here, you cannot take it. Take other places, it is Ijaw land, yes. But this one in Kalabari, you cannot take it.”
Tompolo has not responded to Asare-Dokubo’s tirade. There is no indication that he would, being an evasive fellow.