Oil Theft: So Why was Tompolo Paid N15 Billion?
June 29, 2013

When the crisis in the Niger Delta reached a head around 2008, the name of Mr Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo had become a reference item. By early 2009, the platform for the agitation of the Niger Delta militants called Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) had become as fiercely violent as danger can be. And when the group allegedly killed eleven soldiers, in the creeks of the Niger Delta, it was the crowning of the villainous profile of Tompolo. He was declared wanted by Brig Gen Yaki Bello. With smoking guns and crushing arsenal, the Nigerian army swooped on Camp 5, the Okerenkoko base of the Tompolo-led militants. Tompolo was nowhere to be found. But his camp was leveled and armoury ravaged and seized. That was during the war. Peace has since followed, after the late President Umaru Yar’Adua granted the militants amnesty.
Today, the erstwhile villain called Tompolo, has transformed to a loyal ally of the same government that wanted him dead. He is now a valued patriot. In fact, they have long become business partners, with both parties providing complimentary services to boot.
Sometime in 2011, the Federal government awarded a pipeline surveillance contract worth $103.4m (about N15 billion) to Tompolo’s company—Global West Vessel Specialist Limited (GWVSL). It was essentially to protect the nation’s water ways so the theft of crude which was going on at the time would be curbed. The underlying argument was that since the militants are from the creeks, they know the in-and-out of the crannies of the creek, therefore, they are in a better position to provide security to the pipelines, repel pirates and oil thieves who usually sail into the Nigerian waters at night to steal oil. The Federal Government, it seemed, was persuaded by the argument, especially with its determination to court the militants so there would be peace. Sale of crude oil had dropped to all time 700,000 bpd because of the unrest. The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), a government agency, awarded the contract packaged like a concessionaire agreement with the private sector. It practically ceded the security and protection of the nation’s maritime to an individual, thus making the Nigerian Navy (NN) somewhat irrelevant in the business of securing our territorial waters. [b]Beside Tompolo, other militant leaders like Asari Dokubo, Dagogo, Egberi Papa, got N2billion contract to also secure the oil pipelines in Bayelsa and Rivers States. N580m contract was awarded Boyloaf’s (another militant)’s company.
But two years down the line, the volume of oil theft is unprecedented and unimaginable.[\b] All the oil companies are wailing. Even the federal government is perplexed, wringing its hands in near helplessness. From Shell to Chevron, down to Agip, Total, etc, it is the same story: brazen and unbridled theft of crude. Indeed, many of the oil companies have had several shut-ins because of the oil theft. Once, it used to be done cautiously. Not anymore. Production and sales has dropped to somewhere around 1.3m bpd now, down from 2.7m bpd. The manner of the theft now is such that seems to ask: “Yes, I am stealing, what can you do?” It is more than ever before, an organized cartel. The arising national loss is humongous. The wisdom in giving fish to the rat to keep is so there would be no guessing who ate the fish, if and when it is tampered with. The attendant verbiage is that it must be the rat who ate the fish kept in its custody.
So in this case, Tompolo and co were given the lucrative contract of securing the pipelines, and everyday, not only are raw crude being stolen by armed local and foreign crooks, even pipelines are being vandalized across the country. The present drop in electricity generation in the country has been blamed on disrupted gas pipelines which have disrupted supplies to gas stations. So there is no gas to power the gas stations. And everybody is in darkness. On every front, the nation is losing egregiously. Yet, the nation pays some people for the same job of protecting and securing the pipelines.
You get a picture of how badly the nation’s economy has been bled from all its pores, on account of the oil theft, when you listen to the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She said the nation was losing about 300,000 barrels of crude per day which translates to the loss of $1 billion in revenue per month. So on the average, the nation loses $12 billion per annum to oil thieves, yet, it pays billions of Naira for the protection of the same vandalised pipelines. Little wonder we have a plethora of private jets in the country. It does not make sense!
It is not enough for government to say the 10-year Tompolo contract will not be renewed, it should indeed demand an explanation for the sharp rise in oil theft. Otherwise, the impression will be created that government is treating this economic sabotage with kids glove because it is either a conniver or that it is helpless. None will be appeasing. Only in such a government will a security man be so serviced with huge salary and reward when his master’s prized properties and treasures are being stolen with vexatious efficiency.
All kinds of economic malfeasance now take place in the Niger Delta. With illegal refineries in almost everywhere in the creeks, booming illegal bunkering , naked theft of crude oil and routine pipeline vandalism, the nation’s economy is indeed hemorrhaging and unless some caution is urgently applied, a collapse is imminent, no matter what government propagandists want us to believe.
The final and last issue on this matter is the subtext: what has been the lot of the people of the Niger Delta four years after the so-called amnesty programme was granted? What is the fortune line of the region? Yes, former insurgents are being trained in local and foreign institutions and centres, what has happened to the vast majority of the people of the zone? Where are the promised roads, hospitals, schools, bridges, and all the accoutrements of better life, whose absence, ab initio, powered the protests in the region?
Pray, was the entire amnesty programme meant to just “settle” the “troublemakers” of the region and forget the rest of the peaceful people of the region in their aged misery and fury? Was that the intent of Yar’ Ádua? I scarcely think so!

Polscope with Eddy Odivwri
Eddy.odivwri@thisdaylive.com, 08053069356 THIS DAY

Insanity is said to be doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result
The above is really an insight into the farce called amnesty
The loss of crude oil has one MAJOR source and no prophet is needed to point it out.

fiscalcliff: Oil Theft: So Why was Tompolo Paid N15 Billion?
June 29, 2013

When the crisis in the Niger Delta reached a head around 2008, the name of Mr Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo had become a reference item. By early 2009, the platform for the agitation of the Niger Delta militants called Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) had become as fiercely violent as danger can be. And when the group allegedly killed eleven soldiers, in the creeks of the Niger Delta, it was the crowning of the villainous profile of Tompolo. He was declared wanted by Brig Gen Yaki Bello. With smoking guns and crushing arsenal, the Nigerian army swooped on Camp 5, the Okerenkoko base of the Tompolo-led militants. Tompolo was nowhere to be found. But his camp was leveled and armoury ravaged and seized. That was during the war. Peace has since followed, after the late President Umaru Yar’Adua granted the militants amnesty.
Today, the erstwhile villain called Tompolo, has transformed to a loyal ally of the same government that wanted him dead. He is now a valued patriot. In fact, they have long become business partners, with both parties providing complimentary services to boot.
Sometime in 2011, the Federal government awarded a pipeline surveillance contract worth $103.4m (about N15 billion) to Tompolo’s company—Global West Vessel Specialist Limited (GWVSL). It was essentially to protect the nation’s water ways so the theft of crude which was going on at the time would be curbed. The underlying argument was that since the militants are from the creeks, they know the in-and-out of the crannies of the creek, therefore, they are in a better position to provide security to the pipelines, repel pirates and oil thieves who usually sail into the Nigerian waters at night to steal oil. The Federal Government, it seemed, was persuaded by the argument, especially with its determination to court the militants so there would be peace. Sale of crude oil had dropped to all time 700,000 bpd because of the unrest. The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), a government agency, awarded the contract packaged like a concessionaire agreement with the private sector. It practically ceded the security and protection of the nation’s maritime to an individual, thus making the Nigerian Navy (NN) somewhat irrelevant in the business of securing our territorial waters. [b]Beside Tompolo, other militant leaders like Asari Dokubo, Dagogo, Egberi Papa, got N2billion contract to also secure the oil pipelines in Bayelsa and Rivers States. N580m contract was awarded Boyloaf’s (another militant)’s company.
But two years down the line, the volume of oil theft is unprecedented and unimaginable.[\b] All the oil companies are wailing. Even the federal government is perplexed, wringing its hands in near helplessness. From Shell to Chevron, down to Agip, Total, etc, it is the same story: brazen and unbridled theft of crude. Indeed, many of the oil companies have had several shut-ins because of the oil theft. Once, it used to be done cautiously. Not anymore. Production and sales has dropped to somewhere around 1.3m bpd now, down from 2.7m bpd. The manner of the theft now is such that seems to ask: “Yes, I am stealing, what can you do?” It is more than ever before, an organized cartel. The arising national loss is humongous. The wisdom in giving fish to the rat to keep is so there would be no guessing who ate the fish, if and when it is tampered with. The attendant verbiage is that it must be the rat who ate the fish kept in its custody.
So in this case, Tompolo and co were given the lucrative contract of securing the pipelines, and everyday, not only are raw crude being stolen by armed local and foreign crooks, even pipelines are being vandalized across the country. The present drop in electricity generation in the country has been blamed on disrupted gas pipelines which have disrupted supplies to gas stations. So there is no gas to power the gas stations. And everybody is in darkness. On every front, the nation is losing egregiously. Yet, the nation pays some people for the same job of protecting and securing the pipelines.
You get a picture of how badly the nation’s economy has been bled from all its pores, on account of the oil theft, when you listen to the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She said the nation was losing about 300,000 barrels of crude per day which translates to the loss of $1 billion in revenue per month. So on the average, the nation loses $12 billion per annum to oil thieves, yet, it pays billions of Naira for the protection of the same vandalised pipelines. Little wonder we have a plethora of private jets in the country. It does not make sense!
It is not enough for government to say the 10-year Tompolo contract will not be renewed, it should indeed demand an explanation for the sharp rise in oil theft. Otherwise, the impression will be created that government is treating this economic sabotage with kids glove because it is either a conniver or that it is helpless. None will be appeasing. Only in such a government will a security man be so serviced with huge salary and reward when his master’s prized properties and treasures are being stolen with vexatious efficiency.
All kinds of economic malfeasance now take place in the Niger Delta. With illegal refineries in almost everywhere in the creeks, booming illegal bunkering , naked theft of crude oil and routine pipeline vandalism, the nation’s economy is indeed hemorrhaging and unless some caution is urgently applied, a collapse is imminent, no matter what government propagandists want us to believe.
The final and last issue on this matter is the subtext: what has been the lot of the people of the Niger Delta four years after the so-called amnesty programme was granted? What is the fortune line of the region? Yes, former insurgents are being trained in local and foreign institutions and centres, what has happened to the vast majority of the people of the zone? Where are the promised roads, hospitals, schools, bridges, and all the accoutrements of better life, whose absence, ab initio, powered the protests in the region?
Pray, was the entire amnesty programme meant to just “settle” the “troublemakers” of the region and forget the rest of the peaceful people of the region in their aged misery and fury? Was that the intent of Yar’ Ádua? I scarcely think so!

Polscope with Eddy Odivwri
Eddy.odivwri@thisdaylive.com, 08053069356 THIS DAY

Is it your oil?

Thanks for bringing up what every 10yr old in nigeria already knows about.
Nigeria is in a state of anarchy.
Anarchist in the north,anarchist in the creeks...anarchist in aso rock.
Every oil major are jumping ship,something that did not happen even during the locust years.
They must know something we don't.
The future must be very dire.
A western capitalist loves money so much that he is willing to risk everything .
Why divest ?
some people probably see an impending disaster

adino:
Is it your oil?

And you had to quote the entire post just to comment and show us how daft you are?
Your daftness sure shines through to think that is the best you can put up in replying brazen criminality which is haemoraging the economy and finances of Nigeria
You creek rats are really impossible
Is this what your FRESH AIR seems like
Is this the dividends of electing one from the SS?
Is this how well structured governance manifests?
Does having a president from the SS part of Nigeria a license to commit impunity?
No need to waste MB on cranial deficient fellows like your ilk
Mumu, is not my oil,it is our oil that is fast losing value and lure due to falling demand and technological advances
GERRIT.

adino:





Is it your oil?

u r a foool for askin such incoherently disjointed question and for quotin d whole post.#simpleton
@op, I love dis write up! I've neva bn a fan of dis fraudulent amnesty programme by yar'adua. It shows a high level of weakness by a regim helplessly in search for a way out.
Amnesty to ND militants is anti ND and Nigeria development.
Grauduates from d region remain unemployed while uneducated and troublesome youths gets paid monthly for makin trouble! That alone amounts to ''taking d region for a ride by d FG'' FYI, I'm Niger Deltan.

bloggernaija:
Every oil major are jumping ship,something that did not happen even during the locust years.
They must know something we don't.
The future must be very dire.
A western capitalist loves money so much that he is willing to risk everything .
Why divest ?
some people probably see an impending disaster

This post of yours makes one to say Hmmn
You must wonder what is forming the basis of their thought and subsequent action
What do they no know that is not common knowledge
Or is it because of Uncle Sam's 2015 prediction.

@OP.

It is all a crude scam like the fuel subsidy saga. On one hand, enrich the militants legitimately with formal protection contracts while the militants in turn, because they are now in charge and with legality behind them, supervise the oil bunkering that is massively enriching they and their political benefactors/godfathers.

GEJ is so transparently crude, it is unreal and an embarrassment Nigeria has such a President in this day and age. This is why he is highly disdained by his contemporaries worldwide. They see what is going on and cannot believe how brazen a colleague can be in displaying sheer greed and corruption through the deliberate promotion of anarchy everywhere. The man loves his militants and wants them in charge of the ND by all means. 'Good' luck to him .

Engage urself in sumtin meaningful guy,abi na u dey thief d oil

felixtare: Engage urself in sumtin meaningful guy,abi na u dey thief d oil

wat is dis one sayin?

Sometimes you look at Nigeria, and you wonder if there's a dearth of common sense. This would have been a very easy problem to solve. All to be done was to upgrade the Niger Delta in the way of aggressive infrastructural development and any other measure of human development. Instead, they chose to bribe those strong enough to request for their 'own share'.

Very soon, those that did not take up arms the first time would pick it up again and the whole cycle continues. Meanwhile, they continue to pilfer 'their oil' for now almost unchallenged. The status quo would however soon change when challenged and it would be back to a 'gun running + oil bunkering' dynamics we've previously seen before.

^^^^^
@ gbawe,
What about the image of a nation been sullied further?
Do they ever give thought to that?
A nation that is already gasping for survival
Your scenario is like a woman whose been violated by miscreants and reaches out to the police for help only for the police to round up the miscreants and for them all to revisit the nightmarish process upon her over and over regardless of her cries and anguish
I doubt if Nigeria can survive this Ijaw one chance onslaught till 2015

The part of the article reproduced below shows a reasonable person, beyond the shadow of a doubt, what GEJ is. This is why his colleagues worldwide, who are fully aware of what is going on, thoroughly despise our President. Such a crude level of anti-nation conduct would disturb even the most casual of world leaders.

Today, the erstwhile villain called Tompolo, has transformed to a loyal ally of the same government that wanted him dead. He is now a valued patriot. In fact, they have long become business partners, with both parties providing complimentary services to boot.
Sometime in 2011, the Federal government awarded a pipeline surveillance contract worth $103.4m (about N15 billion) to Tompolo’s company—Global West Vessel Specialist Limited (GWVSL). It was essentially to protect the nation’s water ways so the theft of crude which was going on at the time would be curbed.

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), a government agency, awarded the contract packaged like a concessionaire agreement with the private sector. It practically ceded the security and protection of the nation’s maritime to an individual, thus making the Nigerian Navy (NN) somewhat irrelevant in the business of securing our territorial waters. Beside Tompolo, other militant leaders like Asari Dokubo, Dagogo, Egberi Papa, got N2billion contract to also secure the oil pipelines in Bayelsa and Rivers States. N580m contract was awarded Boyloaf’s (another militant)’s company.

But two years down the line, the volume of oil theft is unprecedented and unimaginable. All the oil companies are wailing. Even the federal government is perplexed, wringing its hands in near helplessness. From Shell to Chevron, down to Agip, Total, etc, it is the same story: brazen and unbridled theft of crude. Indeed, many of the oil companies have had several shut-ins because of the oil theft. Once, it used to be done cautiously. Not anymore. Production and sales has dropped to somewhere around 1.3m bpd now, down from 2.7m bpd. The manner of the theft now is such that seems to ask: “Yes, I am stealing, what can you do?” It is more than ever before, an organized cartel.
The arising national loss is humongous.

The wisdom in giving fish to the rat to keep is so there would be no guessing who ate the fish, if and when it is tampered with. The attendant verbiage is that it must be the rat who ate the fish kept in its custody.
So in this case, Tompolo and co were given the lucrative contract of securing the pipelines, and everyday, not only are raw crude being stolen by armed local and foreign crooks, even pipelines are being vandalized across the country. The present drop in electricity generation in the country has been blamed on disrupted gas pipelines which have disrupted supplies to gas stations. So there is no gas to power the gas stations. And everybody is in darkness. On every front, the nation is losing egregiously. Yet, the nation pays some people for the same job of protecting and securing the pipelines.
You get a picture of how badly the nation’s economy has been bled from all its pores, on account of the oil theft, when you listen to the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She said the nation was losing about 300,000 barrels of crude per day which translates to the loss of $1 billion in revenue per month. So on the average, the nation loses $12 billion per annum to oil thieves, yet, it pays billions of Naira for the protection of the same vandalised pipelines. Little wonder we have a plethora of private jets in the country. It does not make sense!

I dnt see why 9ja shud keep payin her Naval Officers/NIMASA!
Dis pipo just dey waste our money, yet dem go say money nor dey! #sigh

ochukoccna: ^^^^^
@ gbawe,
What about the image of a nation been sullied further?
Do they ever give thought to that?
A nation that is already gasping for survival
Your scenario is like a woman whose been violated by miscreants and reaches out to the police for help only for the police to round up the miscreants and for them all to revisit the nightmarish process upon her over and over regardless of her cries and anguish
I doubt if Nigeria can survive this Ijaw one chance onslaught till 2015

No they do not. After all, we know GEJ does not "give a damn". Certainly, 100% beyond doubt, Nigeria will be in a very bad shape by the time GEJ is done. The gates of hell GEJ has opened deliberately will be very difficult to close because Nigeria is now in a "damned if you do damned if you don't" situation thanks to GEJ's fraudulent antics.

I will explain. As I understand it, the protection contracts to Tompolo et al is up for renewals. Oil theft has risen massively currently in what many analysts believe is the milatant warlords way of subtly threatening the FG to renew their contract or face the current level of theft as a daily occurrence if their deal is not renewed.

Renew their contract and it is 'business as usual' with Nigeria continue to bleed billions of dollars. Terminate their contracts and the militants will certainly ferment trouble for Nigeria because of the easy money they are making and refuse to be weaned of. This is the situation GEJ has put Nigeria in. It is like the fuel subsidy scam. Are we not still using marketers today when Otedola, a member of GEJ's own economic team, has suggested Nigeria deals directly with foreign refineries to stop subsidy scam on the spot?

What manner of "transformation" rejects doing the right thing and instead maintain practices that ensure Nigeria is literally being bled dry everywhere? All Nigeria is known for today is corruption and skyrocketing ownership of private jet which show the gulf , abetted by corrupt enrichment, is widening between the mega rich and the rest of Nigerians.

Obasanjo said chop make i chop administration

The 15 billion wasn't for security of waterways or pipelines but to stockpile "necessary materials" against 2015.

I'd like to see the fresh air apologist defend this one.

adino:





Is it your oil?

NO, IT IS OUR OIL.
BELONG TO A NATION CALLED NIGERIA.

Garri the 1st: The 15 billion wasn't for security of waterways or pipelines but to stockpile "necessary materials" against 2015.

That is part of it. Most savvy analysts know that GEJ is trying to create a shift in the money/power order. He is attempting to do this with the underground looting of Nigeria. It is as simple as that. This is why we are seeing crazy decisions that are the real reason some world leaders have dumped diplomacy to say "haba, this is too much" !!!

David Cameron actually went as far as challenging GEJ to account for the billions received in oil revenue !!! Unprecedented and perhaps intrusive and undiplomatic from Cameron but modern leaders, in a global and networked age, will have less time for diplomacy when actions/inactions and inefficiencies 5,000 miles away now affects their own nation negatively. We must remember leaders of other nation still try to do the best for their people even if Nigerian leaders have abandoned Nigeria.

Cameron specifically felt miffed at what Britain is giving Nigeria in aides when he noted that a "fortune" is being frittered away by Nigerian leaders like GEJ to the extent his nation is put under financial pressure to help out over a situation that can be avoided if GEJ et al behaved more humanely and more responsibly.

We may not know it but the world is disgusted we Nigerians allow such blatantly crude theft of our commonwealth. This action of GEJ is nothing but daylight robbery and we are now seeing the fallout from it. Even Oshiomhole has now bravely taken the Government to task as per how preposterous it looks, vis-a-vis our integrity, that we are experiencing this when “no nation should live with this kind of situation, that we would surrender our national assets to thieves?"

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oshiomhole-massive-oil-theft-inexcusable/153275/

Oshiomhole: Massive Oil Theft Inexcusable

14 Jul 2013


Governor Adams Oshiomhole


By Olusegun Adeniyi
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has said the Federal Government stands the risk of losing its integrity before the public if it fails to deal decisively with the massive theft of crude oil in the Niger Delta that now threatens the nation’s economy.

Oshiomhole decried a situation where the security agencies have seemed incapable of containing the ugly development. He said he told Vice President Namadi Sambo and Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the last Federation Account Allocation Committee meeting in Abuja that the current situation was simply unacceptable.

Speaking in a chat with THISDAY, the governor said the Federal Government had stated last December that the nation had about $10 billion in the Excess Crude Account, only to be informed it had been drawn down to less than $5 billion at the last meeting of the National Economic Council.

Oshiomhole said: “When I sought for explanation, we were told the account was drawn down to augment the budget. Since the federal budget benchmark for crude is 79 dollar per barrel and oil has not sold below $100 this year, I could not understand that kind of arithmetic and then we were told it’s because we are losing about 400,000 barrels of crude per day to thieves. Now, these criminal elements, do they come with buckets or how come we are unable to apprehend them with all our security agencies?”

The governor said what he considered baffling was that at the height of militancy in the Niger Delta, before the declaration of the amnesty programme, which helped to bring down criminality, the nation never witnessed this kind of situation


“No nation should live with this kind of situation, that we would surrender our national assets to thieves? [/b]I hope those of us who call ourselves leaders in this nation will find solution to this problem before we lose integrity in the eyes of the public because I find the situation quite baffling that our Navy would simply be lamenting this sort of monumental criminality that is defying solution,” he said.

[b]The heightened attacks on pipelines coincided with the ongoing negotiation between the federal government team and some of the ex-militants for the renewal of the pipeline surveillance contracts amidst pressure from other militants to be accommodated in the deal.

The cost of the expired pipeline contract is put at N5.6 billion. It was awarded by the government to the ex-militants to check oil theft in the once volatile region.

A report by Wall Street Journal last year said Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo got $9 million yearly to pay his 4,000 former foot soldiers to protect the pipelines, while Ebikabowei “Boyloaf” Victor Ben and Ateke Tom got $3.8 million a year apiece to have their men guard the pipelines.

Another ex-militant leader-Government ‘Tompolo’ Ekpmupolo had a $22.9 million a year contract to do the same job.
According to sources, the NNPC evaluation of the performance of the ex-militant leaders showed a poor rating with Tompolo rated highest as “using the contract as directed to protect the pipelines in the Delta.”

Oil production at the peak of militants’ activities in the Niger Delta was at 1.3 million barrels per day while output increased progressively up to 2.7 million barrels per day after the amnesty programme and the award of pipelines surveillance contracts.

Since the beginning of this year, oil theft and pipeline vandalism have risen with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) recently shutting down the Imo River trunk line in its eastern operation and reducing production by 25,000 barrels daily.
Several crude theft points were found on the facility.

Gbawe:

No they do not. After all, we know GEJ does not "give a damn". Certainly, 100% beyond doubt, Nigeria will be in a very bad shape by the time GEJ is done. The gates of hell GEJ has opened deliberately will be very difficult to close because Nigeria is now in a "damned if you do damned if you don't" situation thanks to GEJ's fraudulent antics.

I will explain. As I understand it, the protection contracts to Tompolo et al is up for renewals. Oil theft has risen massively currently in what many analysts believe is the milatant warlords way of subtly threatening the FG to renew their contract or face the current level of theft as a daily occurrence if their deal is not renewed.

Renew their contract and it is 'business as usual' with Nigeria continue to bleed billions of dollars. Terminate their contracts and the militants will certainly ferment trouble for Nigeria because of the easy money they are making and refuse to be weaned of. This is the situation GEJ has put Nigeria in. It is like the fuel subsidy scam. Are we not still using marketers today when Otedola, a member of GEJ's own economic team, has suggested Nigeria deals directly with foreign refineries to stop subsidy scam on the spot?

What manner of "transformation" rejects doing the right thing and instead maintain practices that ensure Nigeria is literally being bled dry everywhere? All Nigeria is known for today is corruption and skyrocketing ownership of private jet skyrocketing which show the gulf , abetted by corrupt enrichment, is widening between the mega rich and the rest of Nigerians.

THANK YOU GBAWE.
THIS IS A COMMON REASONING WHICH SOME "HE IS OUR OWN" WON'T BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND.
BUT GOODLUCK IS INDIRECTLY ARMING TOMPOLO AND CO. SO THAT HE CAN USE THEM IN 2015.
JONAH IS GIVING THEM CASH, BUT THE CASH WILL BE ENOUGH TO TRANSFORM INTO WEAPONS OF CREEK'S DESTRUCTION.
REMEMBER, THERE IS AN ANTECEDENT IN NORTH EAST.

ochukoccna:

And you had to quote the entire post just to comment and show us how daft you are?
Your daftness sure shines through to think that is the best you can put up in replying brazen criminality which is haemoraging the economy and finances of Nigeria
You creek rats are really impossible
Is this what your FRESH AIR seems like
Is this the dividends of electing one from the SS?
Is this how well structured governance manifests?
Does having a president from the SS part of Nigeria a license to commit impunity?
No need to waste MB on cranial deficient fellows like your ilk
Mumu, is not my oil,it is our oil that is fast losing value and lure due to falling demand and technological advances
GERRIT.

you generation of hypocrites,criminals and parasites. Go and sell the rubbish in your cursed community to take care of your people, you are all permanent beggers feeding fat from stolen goods.
FYI without the oil which is not yours, you lots will die of pernury, starvation, frustration and illiteracy. Idiotts

Olaolufred:

THANK YOU GBAWE.
THIS IS A COMMON REASONING WHICH SOME "HE IS OUR OWN" WON'T BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND.
BUT GOODLUCK IS INDIRECTLY ARMING TOMPOLO AND CO. SO THAT HE CAN USE THEM IN 2015.
JONAH IS GIVING THEM CASH, BUT THE CASH WILL BE ENOUGH TO TRANSFORM INTO WEAPONS OF CREEK'S DESTRUCTION.
REMEMBER, THERE IS AN ANTECEDENT IN NORTH EAST.

Jonathan is simply doing what Odili did when he armed jobless young men to become militants for the sake of his own cynical political agenda. The only difference to what Odili did is that this madness is not underground. It is in the open and backed by the President of Nigeria.

Jenams: u r a foool for askin such incoherently disjointed question and for quotin d whole post.#simpleton
@op, I love dis write up! I've neva bn a fan of dis fraudulent amnesty programme by yar'adua. It shows a high level of weakness by a regim helplessly in search for a way out.
Amnesty to ND militants is anti ND and Nigeria development.
Grauduates from d region remain unemployed while uneducated and troublesome youths gets paid monthly for makin trouble! That alone amounts to ''taking d region for a ride by d FG'' FYI, I'm Niger Deltan.

Your foolishnness is of astonomical proportion, you should be ashamed of yourself. Ex-Militants (N65k monthly) earn higher than you, it shows you are simply unemployable. You all claim N.D now, ode's like you always show how poorly brought up you are. Mannerless and impotent foool.

Olaolufred:
THANK YOU GBAWE.
THIS IS A COMMON REASONING WHICH SOME "HE IS OUR OWN" WON'T BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND.
BUT GOODLUCK IS INDIRECTLY ARMING TOMPOLO AND CO. SO THAT HE CAN USE THEM IN 2015.
JONAH IS GIVING THEM CASH, BUT THE CASH WILL BE ENOUGH TO TRANSFORM INTO WEAPONS OF CREEK'S DESTRUCTION.
REMEMBER, THERE IS AN ANTECEDENT IN NORTH EAST.

Olaolufred, but they are not stealing Yorubaland oil?, any indigene of oil producing community reserve the right at any given time to take and sell oil in his land as much as he wished, there is nothing wrong with that.

3Willywilly:
Olaolufred, but they are not stealing Yorubaland oil?, any indigene of oil producing community reserve the right at any given time to take and sell oil in his land as much as he wished, there is nothing wrong with that.

YOU ARE ERRONIOUSLY WRONG.
THEY ARE NOT STEALING YORUBA OIL, BUT THEY ARE STEALING YORUBA, IGBO, HAUSA, TIV, KANURI, IBIBIO, IJAW, URHOBO, ITSHEKIRI, NUPE AND OTHERS.
IF IT HAD BEEN ONLY YORUBA OIL BEING STOLEN, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER.
BUT IT WAS MORE THAN THE YORUBAS.
CAN'T YOU SEE IT?

Olaolufred:
YOU ARE ERRONIOUSLY WRONG.

Am not wrong, how is U selling of what belong to you wrong,
The oil belong to the community where the oil is found, so if the decide to sell it to whom ever they wished that is not a Yoruba problem, no one come to Yorubas and tell them how to sell their cocoa

Olaolufred:
YOU ARE ERRONIOUSLY WRONG.
THEY ARE NOT STEALING YORUBA OIL, BUT THEY ARE STEALING YORUBA, IGBO, HAUSA, TIV, KANURI, IBIBIO, IJAW, URHOBO, ITSHEKIRI, NUPE AND OTHERS.
CAN'T YOU SEE IT?

Come to Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa ibom or Abia and show me one single ancestral land of the Yorubas.

Gbawe:


That is part of it. Most savvy analysts know that GEJ is trying to create a shift in the money/power order. He is attempting to do this with the underground looting of Nigeria. It is as simple as that. This is why we are seeing crazy decisions that are the real reason some world leaders have dumped diplomacy to say "haba, this is too much" !!!

David Cameron actually went as far as challenging GEJ to account for the billions received in oil revenue !!! Unprecedented and perhaps intrusive and undiplomatic from Cameron but modern leaders, in a global and networked age, will have less time for diplomacy when actions/inactions and inefficiencies 5,000 miles away now affects their own nation negatively. We must remember leaders of other nation still try to do the best for their people even if Nigerian leaders have abandoned Nigeria.

Cameron specifically felt miffed at what Britain is giving Nigeria in aides when he noted that a "fortune" is being frittered away by Nigerian leaders like GEJ to the extent his nation is put under financial pressure to help out over a situation that can be avoided if GEJ et al behaved more humanely and more responsibly.

We may not know it but the world is disgusted we Nigerians allow such blatantly crude theft of our commonwealth. This action of GEJ is nothing but daylight robbery and we are now seeing the fallout from it. Even Oshiomhole has now bravely taken the Government to task as per how preposterous it looks, vis-a-vis our integrity, that we are experiencing this when “no nation should live with this kind of situation, that we would surrender our national assets to thieves?"

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oshiomhole-massive-oil-theft-inexcusable/153275/

Oshiomole is being too damn magnanimous with his choice of words. "Lose integrity" huh? Can some1 lose what they never had

With the level to which things have degenerated in this country, I have this gut feeling only the khaki boys cld salvage the situation if we are to pre-empt another '66!

3Willywilly:
Am not wrong, how is U selling of what belong to you wrong,
The oil belong to the community where the oil is found, so if the decide to sell it to whom ever they wished that is not a Yoruba problem, no one come to Yorubas and tell them how to sell their cocoa

It's a pity I share the same country as inbreds like you.

adino:



you generation of hypocrites,criminals and parasites. Go and sell the rubbish in your cursed community to take care of your people, you are all permanent beggers feeding fat from stolen goods.
[b]FYI without the oil which is not yours, you lots will die of pernury, starvation, frustration and illiteracy. [/b]Idiotts

You know aside from your despicable Otueke English writing, there is a thread here on NL that clearly depicts how your region looked like before the oil boom, and what penury, starvation, frustration, corruption and illiteracy has now done to your region.


Now take a good look at the pictures attached below, and tell me how the oil discovered in your region has improved your family life? Who is dying from penury, frustration, starvation and illiteracy?

https://www.nairaland.com/1358032/niger-delta-village-1960s-before-oil

3Willywilly:
Come to Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa ibom or Abia and show me one single ancestral land of the Yorubas.

ARE THOSE PLACES MENTIONED IN NIGERIA?