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Pipeline Surveillance Job: ‘After Tompolo’s Turn, It Will Go To Another Person’ – South-South Leaders

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South South leaders under the auspices of South-South Chiefs and Elders, have called on the various ex-militants group and youth groups agitating over the pipeline surveillance job awarded to former militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, to sheathe their swords.

www.bigpenngr.com reports Chief Omubo Harry spoke on behalf of the leaders following recent threat by some masked militants against the Federal Government, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), over the pipeline surveillance contract.

Commending the federal government for awarding the job to a Niger Deltan in the person of Tompolo, Chief Harry condemned the threat, and advised any individual or group of persons to also wait for their own turn.

Harry contended that Tompolo, a true son of the Niger Delta deserved the surveillance job, saying that it did not matter where the surveillance job would be, and who secured the contract; rather, it was in the right direction that the job was given to a Niger Delta son.

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He said: “That is why we are saying that militants or whoever, should not threaten anybody. They should allow Tompolo to do his work. Tompolo is from the Niger Delta, the son of the soil.

“And there is no reason for any militant group to revolt because Tompolo was one of the freedom fighters for Niger Delta emancipation. And by the grace of God, he and Alhaji Asari Dokubo were not granted amnesty as a militants. They did not submit or collect anything from federal government.

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“So, if any militant or group of boys call themselves militants, it is not proper for anyone to oppose the surveillance job to Tompolo and others. That appointment is a good step in the right direction. That is what we are all seeking for.

“After Tompolo’s turn, it would go to another person. So, there should not be any form of agitation. So, those people, who are trying to agitate for one thing or the other, we appeal to them to calm down. It is not necessary.”

Harry stressed that they (South-South) did not subscribe to any violence in the region over the appointment and advised aggrieved individuals to toe the part of peace.

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“South-South chiefs and elders do not support any form of violence or opposition for this appointment. The boys (militants) should tow the part of peace.”

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