Tompolo’s surveillance job: Bayelsa Youths protest incomplete payment of allowances, seize anti-crude oil theft Patrol boats
Angry Youths from the Nembe and Brass Local Government areas of Bayelsa State on Monday staged a protest against the incomplete payment of allowances by one of Anti-crude oil theft surveillance contractors, Kojo Sam Logistics Limited, leading to the seizure of patrol boats belonging to the company in the area.
It was gathered that while over 2,000 youths engaged in Bayelsa state by the State Coordinator of the Tantita Security Services owned by the foremost Former Militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo also known as Tompolo, were paid N200,000 monthly allowance for the job, the aggrieved boys attached to Kojo Sam Logistics Limited were paid N50,000.
Investigations showed that despite the existing agreement between the Chief Executive Officer of Kojo Sam Logistics Limited, Chief Kojo Sam and the Youths over the payment of N100, 000 monthly in order to accommodate more youths in the crude oil pipeline surveillance jobs, the company paid them N50, 000 instead of the agreed N100,000.
The aggrieved Youths. Mainly from Okpoama town in Brass Local Government Area of the State, in a protest against the shortage of payments seized the boats and threatened to set them ablaze.
A source told newsmen in Yenagoa that the angry youths, who are from the same community with the Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, accused Chief Kojo Sam of reneging on the existing agreement and short changed short-change them in the monthly payment of their oil pipeline surveillance jobs.
One of the angry Youths, Miebi, 34 years old, however blamed the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva of awarding the oil surveillance component for his own community to an outsider instead of an Okpoama person, “Each worker were to be paid N200, 000 but the youths had agreed with Kojo Sam Logistics Ltd to pay N100, 000 each
WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE
Speech by the National Spokesman of the umbrella body of Ijaw Youths worldwide, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Comrade Ebilade Ekerefe on the NIGERIA MILITARY INVASION AND GENOCIDE AGAINST IJAW COMMUNITIES under the guise of hunting for Oil Thieves in the region.
Ladies and Gentleman!
The Nigeria’s permanent military apparatus has reared its ugly head on Ijaw land again!
The Military dance, which they had tagged “the Python dance” at a point, is visiting heinous genocide and decimation on unarmed, defenseless and hapless Ijaw communities. This killings, maiming and burning down of communities by the Nigerian military at the slightest provocation of criminal elements is considered a threat to the peace and stability the region has enjoyed in recent years.
As the umbrella body of Ijaw Youths in the region whom have contributed to peace and stability in our land, we’ve a duty to speak out and inform the general public of the ugly incidences that has become a recurrent decimal.
We have watched with restraint, the murderous destruction of communities, killings and maiming of innocent and harmless children, men and women, including the elderly, under the pretense of going after unrepentant militants and oil thieves.
We want to place it on record that Nigeria’s colonizing Joint Task Force (JTF) has, in the past fifteen years, decimated our defenseless populations in more than Eighty (80) Ijaw villages, towns and cities.
These communities that have fallen victims in the past include Gbaramatu in Delta State, Odi, Odioma, Gbaran, Ogboinbiri, Kaiama, Ndoro, Liama, Okpoama, Obioku, Yenagoa, Amarata, Ekeki, Opolo, Agudama, Epebu, Oluasiri, Okolobiri, Mbiama, Azuzuama, Ologoama Oboro, Ogodobiri, Peretorugbene, Warri Corner, Okerenkoko, Torugbene, Ogulagha, Odimodi, Okigbene, Olugbobiri, Olugboboro, Ikebiri, Nembe Town, Ferebaghagbene, Okokodiagbene, Oproza, Ogbe-Ijo, Burutu, Ekeremor Zion, Sagbama, Aven, Patani, Amabulu, Peremabiri, O
Bayelsa State Vigilante, Volunteer Security Service rescue NDU student from Keke thieves
The Bayelsa State Vigilante and volunteer security service, earlier today has arrested a robber by name Justice German from Sagbama LGA, aged 23, who threatened a passenger in a tricycle in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital, forcing him to take him and his accomplice to an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) so they could withdraw all the money he had in his account.
According to the victim who is a student of the State owned Niger Delta University (NDU), Orus Henry, who disclosed that, on his way from home to school the tricycle he boarded stopped at Opolo, a suburb in Yenagoa, to drop all the passengers, except him inside, when two suspected criminals standing at the spot boarded the tricycle.
"As we proceeded, the new passengers gave me and the driver a punch and ordered me to give them all my belongings while they asked the driver to do as they instructed. At that point, they took my phone, power bank and five thousand Naira I had on me.
"After that, they ordered me to give them my ATM card and told the tricycle rider on gunpoint to take us to a POS pont. When we got to the POS, they inserted my card and discovered that they couldn't withdraw money from my account.
"At that point, they threatened to kill me that if I don’t comply and that they will take me to a place along Imiringi road, where I will be forced to comply, immediately they forced the tricycle driver to move to imiringi, when we got to Tombia roundabout, I had to force the keke driver to stop and I mediately shouted, and it got the attention of men of the Bayelsa State Vigilante that chased them and apprehend this one while the other escaped.
The Suspect has also confessed to be a member of the Greenlanders cult group and however have been handed over to the police for further investigation and prosecution.
The Chairman Bayelsa State Vigilante Service, Hon. Doubiye Alagba who handed the suspect to Anti-k
