In 2009 Nigeria’s government brokered an amnesty deal. The militants agreed to surrender their weapons in exchange for job training and monthly payments.
The amnesty programme for the Delta militants has been estimated to cost $500m per year and Nigeria’s coffers have been strained by the halving of the price of oil.

Photograph: A militant leader from the Niger Delta examines an anti-aircraft gun surrendered to the government as part of the 2009 amnesty deal (AFP Photo/Pius UtomiEkpei/Getty Images)
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Norway regrets selling warships to ex-Niger Delta militant, Tompolo
May 2, 2015Premium Times

Norwegian Defence Chief, Haakon Bruun-Hansen, an admiral, has apologised to the country’s lawmakers for the sale of a fleet of a decommissioned naval battleships and combats boats to a former Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo.

Mr. Ekpemupolo was the leader of one of the several militias in the Niger Delta region that led a devastating campaign of violence against the Nigerian state for several years until he was awarded a multi-billion pipeline protection contract by the out-going Goodluck Jonathan administration as part of an amnesty deal with ex-combatants.

After giving up fighting, surrendering his arms, and leading his men to hand over their weapons, Tompolo in 2012 received at least six decommissioned Norwegian battleships, a Norwegian newspaper, Daglabet, found in December.

Among them were six fast-speed Hauk-class guided missile boats, now re-armed with new weapons.

The most recent hardware was the KNM Horten, a fast-attack craft allegedly used for anti-piracy patrol in the Nigerian waters.

Daglabet reported that the sale was implemented through a shell maritime Security Company based in the United Kingdom, CAS Global.

CAS Global was used to evade a requirement by Norway that arms dealers obtain export license from their country’s foreign affairs ministry, the report adds.

Mr. Ekpemupolo runs Global West Vessel Service, which handles maritime security issues for the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA.

After the deal became public in December, the Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi, claimed the vessels were purchased as part of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement in conjunction with the Nigerian Navy. He said the Navy has rearmed the vessels to enable it effectively carried out its anti-piracy patrol.

“As an arm of the government responsible for maritime safety, security and regulations amongst others, we work in conjunction with the Nigerian Navy and other relevant security agencies to use their men and arms to patrol and provide safety of the country’s water ways, as mandated by the global body, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

“It is the Navy that has fitted their guns on the vessels to aid their policing of the maritime domain,” he said.

The Norwegian government also, at the time, defended the transaction, according to Daglabet newspaper, saying the export “followed correct procedure and terms of export to Great Britain. The re-export from Great Britain to Nigeria is a question to be handled solely by British export control authorities”.

But the report that Norway sold such military hardware to an individual with a history of violence angered the country’s lawmakers and triggered an investigation leading to the arrest of three Norwegian civil servants, now being charged for corruption.

Speaking during a parliamentary disciplinary committee enquiry into the sale of the battleships this week, the defence chief, Mr. Bruun-Hansen, admitted that military officials did not do proper due diligence before selling the decommissioned ships.

“The fact that the vessels have landed in Nigeria under Nigerian flag reflects a breakdown in our systems, and I apologize for that,” Mr. Bruun-Hansen said during Thursday’s hearing.

Mr. Bruun-Hansen was not the Chief of Defence at the time when the battle ship were sold to CAS Global.

News bureau NTB reported that Mr. Bruun-Hansen’s predecessor, Harald Sunde, who was in-charge when the deal was struck, also apologised saying he was disappointed over all the mistakes made.

He however blamed the breakdown of due diligence in the sale of the vessel to a reorganisation at the defence department’s logistics organization (FLO), at the time the sales was made.

Also speaking during the hearing, Norwegian Foreign Minister, Børge Brende, said a lot about the sale and export of the vessels are still not known and the state prosecutor has been ordered to seek possible criminal violations.

Dagbladet, which uncovered the shady deal, reported that a simple google search would have revealed that CAS Global only had a post office address, yet the military went ahead and allowed Nigerian representatives of the firm, probably handpicked by Mr. Ekpemupolo, to inspect the vessels before they were sold.

“Does this mean that anybody can buy these boats, as long as they sign a declaration?” asked an irate Member of Parliament, Erik Skutle. “Even terrorists? How on earth could this happen?” he added.

During the hearing, Petter Jansen, the head of FLO also tried unsuccessfully to answer questions about another revelation by Dagbladet that Norwegian military had another former Norwegian Coast Guard vessel, the KV Titran, through a South African brokerage company, Nautic Africa, which in turn sold the vessel to an unnamed Nigerian company.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/182368-norway-regrets-selling-warships-to-ex-niger-delta-militant-tompolo.html

Orikinla:
WARRI, Nigeria — A splinter group of Nigerian oil militants accuses former President Goodluck Jonathan and other politicians in the oil-rich Niger Delta of sponsoring attacks on oil installations that have slashed the West African nation’s petroleum production. Jonathan denied the allegations Monday and, through a spokesman, said the militants want to kill him. On Sunday, the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers published names of 20 alleged sponsors of the Niger Delta Avengers, the group it broke away from, including former and current governors of southern states. Politicians long have been accused of backing the oil militants. Southerners are accused of trying to destabilize the government of President ...

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/militants-ex-president-is-sponsor-of-nigeria-oil-attacks/2016/08/08/bf09a0e2-5d82-11e6-84c1-6d27287896b5_story.html

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QUESTION IS: WHO GAVE TOMPOLO THE MILLIONS OF DOLLAARS AND AUTHORIZATION TO IMPORT WAR SHIPS FROM NORWAY IN 2015?

Why should former President Goodluck Jonathan give Niger Delta militants the authority to acquire more arms during the Amnesty Programme?





Whosoever authorizes and permits militants and terrorists to acquire arms is their sponsor.[/size]

mastermaestro:
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[s]I was expecting an detailed report independently investigated by Washington Post. Disappointed. Just the same regurgitated apc hallucination.
Run out of here before I...[/s]

asorocker:
There is nothing we will not see in Nigeria , which one is Reformed Niger Delta Avengers again .on does not need to search to know this is a fake clandestine group trying to rubbish other groups

HungerBAD:
The Washington post is a well respected paper.

Their indictment of Goodluck Jonathan,should trouble all Nigerians. This has nothing to do with me supporting the APC,as this has everything to do with our Country called Nigeria.

The Warships Tompolo bought,is now starting to make sense. The sponsors of these Terrors in the creek will not succeed.

I even see the hands of senior Military men,from a certain part of Country in this. I still feel they pass classified informations to the militants,who without military trainings have so far been eluding Nigeria's best.

Azazi saw this coming,and he was silenced. It is high time the Government of Buhari show some strength,by moving against the mentioned sponsors of terror.

usba:


Use your brain it is not meant to fill up space in your skull...


It should be clear to all that GEJ was setting the government to fail, how would any sane individual pour so much money and grant so much space to criminals who should know better

mazichika:
Fools!
They tried with local media e no sale.now they move am to foreign media to see if e go attract attention. But one thing is for sure,no matter how you try to destroy an innocent man,it will always backfire!

GEJ we love you.

HungerBAD:
The Washington post is a well respected paper.

Their indictment of Goodluck Jonathan,should trouble all Nigerians. This has nothing to do with me supporting the APC,as this has everything to do with our Country called Nigeria.

The Warships Tompolo bought,is now starting to make sense. The sponsors of these Terrors in the creek will not succeed.

I even see the hands of senior Military men,from a certain part of Country in this. I still feel they pass classified informations to the militants,who without military trainings have so far been eluding Nigeria's best.

Azazi saw this coming,and he was silenced. It is high time the Government of Buhari show some strength,by moving against the mentioned sponsors of terror.

mastermaestro:
[/s][s]

I was expecting an detailed report independently investigated by Washington Post. Disappointed. Just the same regurgitated apc hallucination.

Run out of here before I...

HungerBAD:
The Washington post is a well respected paper.

Their indictment of Goodluck Jonathan,should trouble all Nigerians. This has nothing to do with me supporting the APC,as this has everything to do with our Country called Nigeria.

The Warships Tompolo bought,is now starting to make sense. The sponsors of these Terrors in the creek will not succeed.

I even see the hands of senior Military men,from a certain part of Country in this. I still feel they pass classified informations to the militants,who without military trainings have so far been eluding Nigeria's best.

Azazi saw this coming,and he was silenced. It is high time the Government of Buhari show some strength,by moving against the mentioned sponsors of terror.

Orikinla:

Inno gini?

You don't know GEJ.

I know him better.
I was running Transform Nigeria Network for his re-election presidential campaign until we found out his misappropriations of the revenue allocations for defence to sponsor his desperate bid to win second term of office.
He caused the kidnap and abduction of the Chibok school girls.
More than 20, 000 innocent Nigerians, including students of secondary schools, polytechnics and universities, women and children were killed in terrorist attacks by Boko Haram when the billions of dollars would have been spent to stop these attacks and save lives.

Drones would have been enough to intercept Boko Haram terrorists even before they reach any target.

mastermaestro:
[/s][s]

I was expecting an detailed report independently investigated by Washington Post. Disappointed. Just the same regurgitated apc hallucination.

Run out of here before I...

Progressive01:
Whether Niger Delta terrorist or Boko Haram, he supports and sponsors.

Killed Azazi when he let the cat out of the bag.

Won't be surprised if Ayiri drops dead tomorrow over his calls for investigation.

Jogogoro is a dangerous man through and through.

idensko:
Now we know who d splinter militants are!.

@ OP all of us re not Zombies


C as I just dey luk u