Niger Delta stakeholders urge Tinubu to decentralise pipeline protection contract

A conjugation of Niger Delta stakeholders has urged President Bola Tinubu to jettison counsel from apical authorities officials calling the renewal of the multi-billion naira pipeline surveillance contract.

The contract, which is being handled by Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, owned by High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known arsenic Tompolo, is being opposed by immoderate Niger Delta leaders who judge the pipeline extortion cognition should beryllium decentralized.

The stakeholders, successful a petition addressed to the President, insisted that the fashionable presumption of the Niger Delta portion is decentralization of the pipeline surveillance deal.

The petition, signed by Comrade Maxwell Efe connected behalf of the Concerned Niger Delta Patriots for Transparency and Resource Justice, CNDPTRJ, said the declaration is tainted by a lawsuit of struggle of involvement that borders connected economical sabotage against the Nigerian state. The petition besides alleged that those who are bent connected the renewal of the declaration are lone doing truthful to support their idiosyncratic and self-serving interests.

The stakeholders coalition, comprising assemblage leaders, younker groups, biology advocates and others from oil-bearing communities crossed the Niger Delta, argued that Tompolo’s dual relation arsenic some pipeline protector and alleged beneficiary of...