Tompolo and the soldiers are cautioned by Dokubo-Asari to avoid Kalabari.

Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports

Former Niger-Delta warlord and founder of the Niger-Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has warned Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, the leader of the dormant Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND), and the soldiers he is accompanied by to stay away from oil pipelines in his Kalabari territory

Dokubo-Asari boasted in a viral recording that he would serve it hot to anyone who entered his Kalabari homeland in connection with an oil pipeline. According to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, he did this to spite him by awarding the pipeline surveillance contract in Rivers State to Tompolo.
He also said he would prefer to collaborate with President Muhammadu Buhari than with detained Nnamdi Kanu, who he accused of carrying out genocide in Igboland.

Dokubo-Asari said: “You (Tompolo) took pipeline contract in Delta, your place, and then you come to Kalabari to take pipeline contract because you are an Ijaw man; because only you know how to chop (eat).

“You take from Gbaramatu land, you take Itsekiri people own (portion), you take Urhobo people own (portion), you take Isoko people own (portion), you take Kwale people own (portion), you take all.

“You take the whole of Bayelsa own (portion), and then you come to Kalabari. If Timipre Sylva gave you because he wants to clip my wings, when he was a House of Assembly member, did I clip his wing?

“I am older than he is. When he was governor, did I clip his wings?

“That I am becoming too powerful, so he connived and gave pipeline contract so that he will destroy what we are doing to make the government he is part of, stable.

“Therefore, he brought Tompolo and Tompolo gathered people and told them he would buy guns and give them. Let them come.

No, I’m not bragging. Soldiers, I believe, will direct him here. Bring them in. I avoided discussing Rivers State. Kalabari, I said. They can’t handle it. Let them go wherever they choose, but not Kalabari.

“People come to Oporoza to support you when you are making over N4.5 billion a month doing nothing.

“You cannot take the pipeline in Kalabari; leave it here. Take other locations; sure, that is Ijaw territory. You cannot accept this one in Kalabari though.

He disputed claims that Tompolo had saved him and questioned, “Where did Tompolo save me? I am the one that kept Tompolo alive.

“People are alive, they know. Does Tompolo leave Oporoza? Does he not know me? Saved me where, how?

“I took my things there. I went to fight them with my men. When I want my things back, they did not agree to give me.

“Tompolo brought 48 rifles for me which I take go. Did they give me one human being? I take my boat go, I take my guns to go, I take my General Purpose Machine Gun, GPMG go, take my rocket launchers go in 1998/1999, 2003(sic).

“Igbo blood flows in my vein, so that is it. I come from five generations of educated people; I went to the school when some of you were in the bush.

“If anybody has betrayed Ijaw nation, they are the ones. Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is dead today.

“Even the amnesty they took is sabotaged because of them. In their greed to have everything to themselves, they destroyed everything.

“We aim to take the NDDC chairman and managing director. I must be the one to propose, NDDC, NIMASA, I must be the one to propose.

These are the traitors and villains who have kept Ijaw land in this condition because they thought they deserved to have all at the expense of others.

You claim that Tompolo saved my life. How? Did you hear that the Army had already penetrated my camp while we have been fighting?

In just three days, they destroyed his Camp-5. The army has been stationed in Camp-5, a military base, up until this point.

Did you know the army send troops to my camp while we were fighting?