My Letter To Government Ekpemukpolo (A.K.A Tompolo).
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1, Sapele Olofofo Unugbragada Avenue,
Sapele, Delta State.

Before I start I have a few questions for you sir.

1. Where did the Niger Delta Struggle go to in the last 6 years?

2. Why is there so much vandalization of oil facilities off late?

3. Is it true that you said the Federal Government can not arrest you? If it is true, I will advice you to have a rethink, because after God is government, and this is not Yaradua's or Goodlucks regme .

4. Is the allegations leveled on you true? If no, why have you not honoured your invitation, and if paraventure you went and they refused to show up, why can't you visit again after all you guys are very patient.

Thank you, permit me to roll in my mind on the issue on ground.

Before the emergence of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as president, the likes of Ankio Briggs, Asari Dokubo, Opunabo Nkot 'Tariah, Ledum Metee, Edwin Clark etc were always on Television telling Nigerians and the world how the South-South has been marginalized by the North and the West despite her oil.

By divine and metaphysical error,Goodluck Jonathan from the South-South, the presumed Nazareth of Nigeria became the president of Nigeria after President Umaru Yaradua's death in 2009.

His emergence came as a joyous daybreak to end our age-long marginalization .

There was a beacon light of hope for my region. Immediately, the Niger Delta struggle stumbled and died or gone Comatose.

The Niger Delta activists mentioned above became Jonathan's spokespersons and abandoned the struggle.

In 2011, Nigerians, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Christians and muslims voted massively for Jonathan.

Thereafter, administrative thieves were appointed Ministers and head of federal institutions,

- Convicted criminals received presidential pardon.

- Militants were given contracts running into billions of Naira.

- Impunity and corruption became the norm.

All these and many more replaced the Niger Delta struggle for resource control.

The need for constant electricity, portable water, good health facilities, good road network, massive manpower development etc went into oblivion.

Even the recent Ogoni UNEP report that would have changed the live of an average Ogoni man was not implemented by their regional brother - president.

Recall that NDDC was established by Olusegun Obasanjo a Yoruba man.

Ministry of Niger and Amnesty Office was established by Late, President Umaru Musa Yaradua, a Northerner.

Regrettably, this two federal agencies including NIMASA and NNPC became conduit pipes for Jonathan's Wife, Nyesom Wike, Deziani Allison, Godswill Apkabio and many cronies of Jonathan to rape and siphon funds meant for the development of the Niger Delta region.

Credibility died. Equity died. Competence died.

Due process died. Conscience died.

And the Niger Delta struggle died in their son's hand.

Former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, knowing that the South - South may not have the opportunity of Producing the President of Nigeria again cried out and they called him a betrayer.

They fought him with federal might and pushed him out of PDP, a replicate of what Joseph's brothers did when they sold him to the shmelites. But today Amaechi is laughing because they pushed him to stardom.

Even the East/ West road that was awarded by former President Obasanjo and inherited by Yaradua and later Jonathan is still not completed.

Bayelsa State today does not have an airport or a strong federal government institution that can generate employment opportunities for Bayelsa youths.

Few months to the Presidential election, Ankio Briggs, Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark, Nyesom Wike, Tompolo Government, Kingsley Kuku, etc awaken the Niger Delta struggle.

What a shame!

What an irony? For five years nobody heard them because they were swimming and sleeping on money.

When Goodluck Ebele Jonathan eventually contested and lost the 2015 Presidential election to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the APC, the House of Assembly of all South-South states became a compensation point for militants ( Former and Active).

Everything was done with the police and INEC to ensure that cronies of Jonathan and his wife were declared winners of the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the South- South especially Rivers State and Bayelsa.

And if Jonathan had won the last election and ruled for another ten years, there won't be any hope for the actualization of the Niger Delta Struggle.

Go to Oloibiri and other villages in Ijaw land and see the level of environmental degradation yet their son was president of Nigeria for six years.

People are living a stone-age life over there, no land to build a house, no pipe burn water, no hospital, no school and no road yet some people will seat in Abuja and Portharcourt collecting billions of Naira as Champions of the Niger Delta struggle.

As I pen down my thought, I know that we have eaten our cake and we may not have it back. We had the opportunity but we messed it up.

If President Buhari remembers us, good, but if he forgets us, I will not complain.

And those who has decided to go back to the creeks and mangroves of Niger Delta to resume the armed struggle and hostilities; should know that President Buhari has enough shoes to match them unlike Jonathan who has no shoes.

Niger Delta will not boil, Tompolo should do the needful by making himself available for interrogation, if he is clean he would be left alone..

Who is this attention seeker?

TippyTop:
Who is this attention seeker?

Is the "attention seeker" on point or not?

Seriously, you guys make me puke with your morally deficient mind-set.

Is the Niger Delta better off now than what it was before GEJ became president? Dont you all think that the Niger Delta should have been his top priority when GEJ assumed office, being a son of the soil and the hue and cry of Niger Delta marginalization?

Its sooo sad that a silly and worthless child (GEJ) is the Niger Deltan fate jeeringly deemed fit to make the president of Nigeria.

Cry Niger Delta!

andresia:



Is the "attention seeker" on point or not?

Seriously, you guys make me puke with your morally deficient mind-set.

Is the Niger Delta better off now than what it was before GEJ became president? Dont you all think that the Niger Delta should have been his top priority when GEJ assumed office, being a son of the soil and the hue and cry of Niger Delta marginalization?

Its sooo sad that a silly and worthless child (GEJ) is the Niger Deltan fate jeeringly deemed fit to make the president of Nigeria.

Cry Niger Delta!

Indeed. Nigeria will never be the same again because GEJ, a very divisive President who robbed the poor and gave to the rich, has brought out irresponsibly clannish behaviour in some ethnic groups. Man is only distinct from animals because he is supposed to be evolved and able to tell wrong from right . It is nauseating to see that rather than make issues about what is best for Nigeria some folks are only interested in a perpetual defence, right or wrong, of everything/everyone connected to their ethnic group. Tragic.Those who mean well for Nigeria, wherever they are from, will prevail ultimately.