Northern youth angered over pipeline surveillance contract awared to Tompolo

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Following the award of the multi-billion dollar pipeline protection contract to Tompolo, a certain extraction of the northern youth has kicked against the appointment.

The Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups (AAYG) today made a call to President Buhari to terminate the appointment of the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, and the Group Executive Director, Upstream of the NNPC LTD, Mr Adokiye Tombomelye for what they call promotion of ethnic and regional interest over National interest. They were referring to the award of pipeline surveillance contract worth over N4 billion monthly to a former leader of the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta, Mr Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo.

The group issued their statement via Comrade Victor Duniya, spokesman of AAYG. They also asked Mele Kyari, GMD NNPC to be sacked for using his office to reward criminality and treasonable tendencies instead of patriotism.

The statement reads: “That President Muhammadu Buhari should sack His Excellency, Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Adokiye Tombomelye, Group Executive Director, Upstream of the NNPC LTD, for promoting ethnic and regional interest over national interest and Mele Kyari, GMD NNPC for using his office to reward criminality and treasonable tendencies instead of patriotism.”

The group said they were shocked when the news to got to them that Tompolo was awared the pipeline surveillance contract of over four billion naira monthly.

According to the statement, the contract’s purpose was to end illegal bunkering, illegal refining and other forms of oil theft in the Niger Delta, but they pointed at the fact that when the regime of Buhari started, Tompolo was declared wanted by the EFCC. They also accused him of leading uncontrolled bombing of oil facilities in Niger Delta, which to a large extent dragged the country into recession.

“It is most unfortunate that the government and management of the NNPC Limited will submit themselves cheaply to the blackmail of a man whose major business initiative is to raise arms against the state and assemble cultists of his region in his country home to do his bidding as the major qualification to be awarded a contract to protect oil installations in the Niger Delta region of our country,” the statement observed.

The statement also added that when characters like Tompolo triumph over the Armed Forces, it’s a clear case of abdication of responsibilities and said that 1000,000 of his likes wouldn’t succeed against 200,000,000 Nigerians.

The group said it is not surprised that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, who ought to have rallied the Armed Forces to restore peace in the Niger Delta, the same way he is doing in the Southeast, South West and the Boko Haram ravaged Northeast, has allowed the Niger Delta solidarity to overtake national interest.

“We are not surprised that both Sylva and Adokiye are from the South-South, who has been acting as saboteurs in the administration they were called upon to serve Nigerians,” the statement also alleged.

Source: dailypost.ng

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