One of the sour points of the
last administration under
president Goodluck Jonathan
was the loss of over 400,000
barrels of oil daily despite heavy
payments being made under
pipeline surveillance contracts.
One of the biggest beneficiaries
of the surveillance contracts has
been former Niger Delta
militant, Mr. Government
Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo who
has been earning a whopping
N1.5bn every month.
The shocking revelation was
made by the pioneer chairman
of the Nigerian Maritime
Administration and Safety
Agency (NIMASA), Dr Ahmed
Tijani Ramalan.
He disclosed that the agency
pays the sum of N1.5bn
monthly to the ex-militant
leader of the Movement for the
Emancipation of Niger Delta
(MEND), Tompolo, to protect
the nation’s maritime areas.
Dr Ramalan, however, lamented
that despite such gesture, the
country still loses over 400,000
barrels of crude oil daily from
the nation’s shores.
The former NIMASA chairman
therefore called on president
Muhammadu Buhari to cancel
the contract given to the ex-
militant by the administration of
former president Jonathan.
He said, “Over 400, 000 barrels
of crude oil are being stolen
daily from our shores under
President Jonathan; yet we had
a government that has the Navy,
the Army and the Air Force, and
the government of Jonathan
decides to hand over the
security of our maritime waters
to Tompolo at a very exorbitant
amount of money.
“And these same people that
are given the job of our
maritime security are the ones
that are collaborating with the
international shipping companies
to steal our oil.”
According to him, one of the
ways to help the country’s
economy to bounce back is to
revoke Tompolo’s contract.
“And if Buhari does not do so,
we will be the first to start
attacking him. There is no basis
to give that kind of billion naira
job to ex-militants,” he
declared.
Making further clarification on
how long the payment has been
going on, Ramalan said it started
“sometime after 2011 when
Jonathan won his election and
since then the payment has
been on.
“I was the pioneer chairman of
NIMASA, and NIMASA is the one
funding the contract given to
Tompolo. This is a guy that is
collecting about N1.5bn every
month and yet our Armed
Forces are not well funded. So,
we call on the president to
discard such contract.”

JESUS WEPT
THIS ONE NO GO MAKE FP NA ONLY AISHA SALON GO GO FP

r u serious? this is bad.

Jst imagin...yet dem say nija dey hold chunks of debt nd one man dey collect steady 1.5bil

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Believe this rant at your own peril. 1.5Bil naira per month? Tell me another bullshit pls.