…Security agents loot my N10bn building materials
…Looting allegation strange to me — NNS Delta
Commander
WARRI— Embattled former militant leader, Chief
Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, yesterday, asked President
Muhammadu Buhari to tell Nigerians the economic importance of his hometown,
Daura, to warrant his approval of construction of railway lines
from Kano and Helipad with the revenue derived from oil and gas in the Niger
Delta region.
Tompolo also alleged that security agents looted
building materials worth over N10 billion at his Jetty and Waterfront, in
Edjeba, near Warri, Delta State, seized by Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC.
He said, “In this context, it will not be out of
place to juxtaposing question of what economic significance is your hometown,
Daura, which you approved construction of a railway line to and the
construction of a helipad with revenue derived from oil and gas in the Niger
Delta region?”
He spoke in commemoration of the first anniversary
of his father, the late Chief Thomas Ekpumupolo, who died after he was shot by
soldiers, who invaded Gbaramatu Kingdom, September, last year, allegedly in
search of him and militants bombing oil facilities in the region.
He said: “Let me use this medium to also inform the
world that the Nigerian Navy under the behest of President Buhari
administration had looted my Waterfront and Jetty facilities maliciously and
unlawfully seized by the EFCC.
“In the last inventory of my facility, there was
over N10 billion worth of building and other materials at the jetty, but
information reaching me now has it that the jetty had been stripped bare by
service personnel of the Joint Task Force, JTF.
“Some of the materials presumably have been taken
to northern Nigeria. How could this happen under your watch? As rightly
observed by other well-meaning Nigerians, let me echo their thoughts by asking,
where is the much-touted anti-corruption crusade?”
Contacted on the alleged looting of N10 billion
building materials, Commander, Nigerian Navy Service, NNS Delta,
Commodore Ibrahim Dewu said: “I am not aware of this allegation. It’s
strange to me.”
Tompolo, who fingered President Buhari for his
predicament, said: “I will like to remind Mr. President that my
bank accounts remain frozen on his orders, thereby financially
incapacitating me from performing my natural obligations as a father in paying
my daughter and other dependents’ tuition fees and sundry expenses in Nigeria,
while it is known that your children have schooled or may still be in the
process of schooling in highly rated universities in the United Kingdom,
surely with funds derived from proceeds of the oil and gas resources in the
Niger Delta.
“Your public asset declaration puts you way beyond
the near capacity to have funded the education of your children in world- class
universities in the UK and also provide the affluence and luxury that they
enjoy in the UK. I make this observation because it demonstrates your personal
insincerity and the injustices meted out to Nigerians by your policies,” he
said.
Also recalling that President Buhari’s health bills
while in the United Kingdom were paid with proceeds ultimately derived from
crude oil and gas revenue from his backyard, while the people of Niger Delta
and Nigerians continue to be denied access to basic health facilities, Tompolo
urged the President “to turn a new leaf and seek the true face of God, who has
given him a new lease of life.”
Credit: Vanguard
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