– The Nigerian police force deploys officers to arrest former Niger Delta militant leader Tompolo
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Justice Ibrahim Buba orders security agencies to provide the former Niger Delta
militant by February 19
–
Economic Financial Crimes Commission is accusing Tompolo of corruption
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The Economic Financial Crimes Commission declares Chief Government Ekpemu
a.k.a Tompolo wanted
The
Nigerian police force have deployed officers in Bayelsa State to arrest
former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as
Tompolo.
According
to The Punch, Solomon Arase, the Inspector-General of Police, had ordered the
Bayelsa state police command to carry out Tompolo’s arrest in compliance with
the order of a Federal High Court, Lagos.
Bisi Kolawole, the Public Relations Officer, confirmed that the
IG had directed officers to apprehend Tompolo,
who has also been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC). Justice Ibrahim Buba of
the Federal High Court had ordered the
arrest of the former militant leader for his failure to appear before him to
answer 40 counts on an alleged N45.9bn fraud.
The
EFCC had charged Tompolo and a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime
Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, alongside eight others
with N45.9bn fraud.
The
spokesperson of the police stated that the force would do everything possible
to arrest Tompolo in compliance to the bench warrant issued by the court.
Meanwhile,
with four days to the February 19 date given by a Federal High Court sitting in
Lagos to the nation’s security agencies to produce the former militant leader,
there is no clue as to his whereabouts, Vanguard reports.
His
Ijaw relatives also are not ready to give up the former militant leader, who
the people of Gbaramatu-Ijaw in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta
state, regard in very high esteem.
A
royal father, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “No
Gbaramatu man will reveal the hideout of Tompolo to any security man even if he
knows, unless that person does not have a true Ijaw blood flowing in him.”
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