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gists:
Only under a clueless GEJ will a militant be this powerful. Not even Abacha could have plunged Nigeria into an abyss of corruption and insecurity like this.

BRAV0O:
See ? Lot of sh!!t happen like no other under gej , I don't no what they take us for , can u imagine

Pls who is tompolo ?

Concern Mounts in House over Tompolo’s Purchase of Gunboats

19 Dec 2014


Receives report of constitution review friday
Muhammad Bello in Abuja

Despite the explanations provided by the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) on the procurement of seven gunboats by an ex-Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, for the maritime agency, the House of Representatives on Thursday expressed concern over the development.

The House said it was not comfortable with the way and manner in which a private coastal security company owned by Tompolo procured the seven gunboats recently.

The House spokesman, Hon. Zakari Mohammed, told journalists that the development was fearsome, thus propelling the lower chamber to consider the probe of the purchase of the military hardware by the ex-militant on resumption in January 2015.

“This is a cause for concern. We have gotten certain systems wrong in the country. The development is scary and worrisome. We thought such procurements are handled by the navy.

“On resumption, the relevant House committees will look into it to know the facts of the matter.

“The individual (Tompolo) was paid to protect our waterways, but the irony is that we still have a lot of leakages. The House of Representatives faulted that contract but our reservations were buried in sentiments,” Mohammed said.

In a separate development, the National Assembly will friday receive the conference report of the review of the 1999 Constitution, which was earlier transmitted to state Houses of Assembly for their votes and concurrence.
The constitution amendment bill is expected to show the voting patterns from the 36 state assemblies on the proposed 71 amendments.

The National Assembly had amended portions pertaining to legislative immunity, local government autonomy, state creation, indigeneship and citizenship dichotomy, independent candidacy in elections, the budgetary process, life pensions for National Assembly heads, the role for traditional rulers, local government autonomy, and separation of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation from the Minister of Justice, among others.

The Chief of Training and Operations of the Nigerian Navy, Rear Admiral Austin Oyagha, at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday said reports that Tompolo had acquired gunboats, initially misreported as warships, were untrue.

He explained that the said gunboats belonged to NIMASA and were being manned by personnel of the Nigerian Navy from the maritime component of the service, in consonance with a pact between the agency and the navy.

OrlandoOwoh:
Your future is being messed with, you are saying rubbish.

baybeeboi:
APC
you neva get tired

Alphaoscar:
Ghenghen!! Alarm blow finnaly.

Howmon:
When I ask for source I ain't talking Osun defender, it's like asking for sauce and some1 brings you a bicycle pedal!!!

Two Britons Arrested over Bribe Involving Gunboats Sold to Tompolo


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A. K. A Tampolo

Davidson Iriekpen with agency report With the dust yet to settle over the procurement of seven gunboats by a private security firm belonging to ex-Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemuplo, aka Tompolo, purportedly for the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), it has emerged that two British businessmen have been arrested on suspicion of bribing a Norwegian official alleged to have been involved in the controversial sale of the former naval vessels.
[b]According to the London-based Independent newspaper, a joint investigation by the City of London’s Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit (OACU) and their counterparts in Norway, Okokrim, examined how the former warships, including missile-torpedo boats (MTBs), ended up under the control of a former Niger Delta militant who now runs privatised national security contracts worth millions of dollars that have been authorised by the Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan.
Detectives from the OACU arrested a man in his early 40s at his home in Alfreton, Derbyshire, and a man in his late 50s at an address in East Molesey, Surrey.
The two are alleged to have made payments to a Norwegian civil servant totalling more than $150,000.
The money, in two separate transactions, is alleged to have been paid directly into the official’s personal bank account.
The cash is alleged to have helped secure the sale of the decommissioned Norwegian Navy ships by disguising the eventual destination of the warships.[/b]
Under Norway’s ethical foreign policy rules, the direct sale of the decommissioned warships to a private Nigerian company regarded as effectively running the country’s outsourced national coast guard, could have proved difficult.
With a general election in Nigeria scheduled for February, both the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the country’s foreign affairs departments in Oslo, were likely to have asked for a lengthy political assessment of the export deal if the destination of the vessels had been fully known.
It is understood that the Norwegian authorities assumed their former naval MTBs, post-sale, would be converted to unarmed vessels and operate under European laws.
In addition to the two arrests in England, a business address in Surrey was also searched by the OACU with computer equipment and documents seized.
The UK police have not named the company involved, stating only that it was involved in “international risk management for the maritime industry”.
However authorities in Norway have said the arrested men are connected to a UK firm called CAS Global, which is headquartered in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
The firm described itself as specialising in “maritime services”.
CAS also has registered offices in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, in Tema in Ghana, and in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown.
Police in Norway have arrested a third man in Tonsberg on the country’s south west coast.
DCI Danny Medlycott, head of the OACU, said the operation was a “great example” of how his unit was working closely with other international enforcement partners “to combat bribery and corruption.”
Although the OACU have been involved in 150 corruption and bribery operations since it was established in 2006, its most high-profile success is Operation Cent, which resulted in the convictions of those involved in producing and selling fake “substance detectors”.
The “useless” devices, which had a £3m annual turnover, were sold around the world and marketed as capable of finding explosives.
The trial judge said the scam investigated by the OACU had “damaged the reputation of British trade abroad”.
The former Norwegian missile torpedo boats are now part of a private fleet under the control of Tompolo.
He was a militia leader in the 2009 Niger Delta insurgency that fought the Nigerian army and destroyed oil installations in widespread protests against corruption and mismanagement in the region’s high-value oil industry.
Since the uprising and following Jonathan’s first election victory in 2011, Tompolo’s security firm, Global West Vessels Specialist (GWVS), has won lucrative state contracts that have been criticised in some quarters as undermining the authority of the Nigerian Navy.
Okokrim – Norway’s National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime – were tasked with investigating how the sale of the vessels was fast-tracked to a UK-registered company but ended up in the fleet owned by Tompolo, who is a close political ally of the Nigerian president.

JackBaueress1:
Fayose is an attention seeker. I expect more lashes at him.
He is a disgrace to his mother,father,wife and kids and to his ethnic group.

Shame on him!

holatin:
you are a disgrace to we Yoruba, you idiotic fellow, you remember what you said to me d other day, DAT am not respecting an elder statesman.

Ask yourself DO I DESERVE RESPECT ?

OPONU AGBA !

Firefire:
Party of alarmist and propagandist


Enjoy your caricature show while it last!


GEJ remains Nigeria President till 2019.

sunkoye:
If a mad man understands that what he is doing is not right...he won't be be walking naked on the street.

OrlandoOwoh:
The last time I passed the steel company in Itakpe, Kogi State, I weep when I saw the weeds that have taken over its premises.

fijiano202:
is the account verified? i just wanna be sure hes the one

Iykopee:
Becos the senseless ones amongst them are believing that if buhari becomes president with projected tenure expiration in 2023, automatically, a yoruba will take over. They had forgotten the same man jailed even their innocent fathers like no one else...Me, myself wont stoop this low to supporting a man who got my father blind for no tenable reason. Politics or no politics.

jojomario:
Story for the gods.
Just don't disturb yourself for future write up. Its GMB/PYO all the way.

rozayx5:
is that what you were looking for
errors in my typing, you lost it long ago i classify you as a little weedian nowadays, run along little one you wont be missed

stebell:
Story for APC dead gods
Uncle Gbawe, pls tell us another story.

Has he gotten hold of his certificate?
GEJ rocks

rozayx5:
buhari is old , he should be resting for his own good, and its surprising to see young educated men placing their hope in an old general who has nothing to show for all his years in the army ( somebody who is yet to proof prove he has attended primary or secondary school) , no NGO no creation of jobs to his name anywhere, its absurd

ilugunboy:
Likewise most Nigerians......

FreeGlobe:
APC never jam, this time it's fire for fire. Propaganda for propaganda. APC has Elrufai and Amaechi, Fayose should be enough to handle them.

stebell:
Fayose, tormenting APC since 1999.

Sai GEJ
Shame Buhari.

Ozin:
Fayose feeding the APCshiit their kind of food raw

Horus:
Yes, and GEJ should be removed from power, he is not the man to lead the largest economy in Africa

PEREP:
Though I do not buy the Logic, what will Buhari do to Fayose? He will ask PDP Lawmakers in the state to Impeeach him or ask the security Operatives to Harrass him? He has immunity under the law and if there must be change, it should not be to the old era of Obj.

Amaechi today talks about harrassment and you wonder if the President has stopped his allocation or withdrew his security details or has he been stopped from spending Rivers state funds.

My issue is the Nigeria readers who will take the message like that and simply drop the idea to vote GMB. Those pple don't have Twitter account, No Social Media platform but with PVC.

Recall APC posters in Lagos doing many comparison with GEJ's pictures and Buhari? This was how it all started and now it is been expanded.

ndidibabe:
Granted that Fayose is clueless, daft, moronic and "tar-tar-nic" but what happened to his numerous advisers? Are they all stupid? This is a total disgrace!!!!

eyeview:
This not the way to campaign. Its quite extreme.
These are people's husband and father. The deaths shouldn't be politicised.
Fayose should learn to exercise decorum. This is enough to turn that region against jonathan

Collynzo9:
Article by Jumoke Balogun

anonimi:
Since when did you become a painter

Hopefully you will stop your group's hypocrisy about using red fonts. Although I suspect that may be too much to hope for from the Association of Pretending Crooks, APC sympathisers and internet warriors since



APC = HYPOCRISY = APC






Kai Buhari!!!
#Liberate-Lagos