{"id":107538,"date":"2023-09-05T14:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=107538"},"modified":"2023-09-05T14:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:11:03","slug":"arewa-youths-stage-protest-urge-fg-not-to-renew-tompolos-pipeline-surveillance-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/arewa-youths-stage-protest-urge-fg-not-to-renew-tompolos-pipeline-surveillance-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Arewa youths stage protest, urge FG not to renew Tompolo\u2019s pipeline surveillance contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Members of the Northern Youth Advocacy for Good Governance Initiative and the Arewa Youth Forum, on Monday, staged a protest at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>They demanded that the Federal Government not renew a pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Tantita Security, owned by Mr. Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo.<\/p>\n<p>Defying the presence of security operatives, the protestors called on President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to reconsider renewing the contract, citing rampant financial malfeasance associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>Placards held aloft by protestors bore inscriptions such as \u2018Tompolo\u2019s Pipeline Surveillance Is a Fraud\u2019, \u2018President Tinubu, Please Save Nigeria from these Jackals\u2019, and \u2018Suspend and Probe NNPC Menchmen\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Comrade Musa Adebayo, the President of the Arewa Youth Congress, read a statement co-signed by Comrade Usman Saidu, President of the Northern Youth Advocacy for Good Governance Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>They argued that since the contract was awarded to Tompolo, there had been no significant rise in oil production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe successes being celebrated are normal production rates before the mayhem of the Niger Delta Avengers,\u201d Adebayo stated.<\/p>\n<p>He further expressed concerns about the efforts to re-award the contract to Tompolo, an ex-militant general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a major matter of concern how much concerted effort is being made to re-award the pipeline surveillance contracts despite the tension, financial malfeasance, disinformation, and abnormalities that are inherent in the contract,\u201d Adebayo said.<\/p>\n<p>The protestors also called for the suspension and investigation of several NNPCL executives for their involvement in contracts concerning the security and maintenance of pipeline infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>They argued that these contracts cost the federal government almost one billion dollars in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs concerned citizens, we should understand that the country is too tense to allow for any action that may breed internal turmoil and more controversy within the ranks of its citizenry,\u201d Adebayo said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that awarding contracts to someone \u201cwho should ordinarily be behind bars for the economic mayhem caused in the Niger Delta region between 2016 and 2018 is total anti-peace and anti-development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adebayo vowed that the protestors would continue to occupy the NNPCL premises until their demands were met.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Northern Youth Advocacy for Good Governance Initiative and the Arewa Youth Forum, on Monday, staged a protest at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) headquarters in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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