President Jonathan's High- Priced Militants: Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Ateke Tom Paid Millions of Dollars Annually Posted: August 22, 2012 - 14:46 President Jonathan's aide,
Oronto Douglas and ex-militant,
Asari Dokubo
By PM News, Lagos America’s Wall Street Journal
today revealed the mind-
boggling million dollar sums
that the Nigerian government
has been paying Niger Delta
warlords to keep them off the oil pipelines in the past 12
months. Mr. Dokubo Asari, the former
warlord that first shot to
national limelight collects $
9million every year to keep his
estimated 4000 soldiers at bay.
‘General’ Ateke Toms and ‘General‘ Ebikabowei Boyloaf
Victor Ben collect $3.5million
apiece while General
Government Tompolo
Ekpumopolo is the most priced
of all: he gets $22.5 million yearly. The newspaper said the figures
were gotten from senior
officials of the Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation, which
makes the payment direct to
these warlords. While Dokubo shrugged off the
huge payment he receives,
about N1.44 billion, as nothing
unusual, there is the belief that
the selective payments have
bred some jealousy among other militants, not so
rewarded, who in reaction
continue to pillage Nigeria’s
crude oil pipelines. Nigeria loses
no less than 10 per cent of its
crude production to oil thieves on prowl in the Niger Delta,
despite the programme of
pacification called the Amnesty
Programme. By Shell’s account, no less than
150,000 barrels of Nigeria’s
production are stolen daily, a
very low estimate in the eyes of
many Niger Delta watchers. The Wall Street Journal said in
its report that government
plans to spend $450 million on
the amnesty programme this
year alone, despite the
increasing theft of crude in the region. Said the respected journal: The
gilded pacification campaign is
offered up by the government
as a success story. But others
say the program, including a
2009 amnesty, has sent young men in Nigeria’s turbulent delta
a different message: that
militancy promises more
rewards than risks. For more please go to : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB
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Another valid reason to prove that Nigeria is a completely hopeless country.