{"id":98578,"date":"2022-08-24T22:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98578"},"modified":"2022-08-24T22:05:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T21:05:29","slug":"tompolo-dont-provoke-crisis-in-niger-delta-pandef-warns-northern-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/tompolo-dont-provoke-crisis-in-niger-delta-pandef-warns-northern-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Tompolo: Don\u2019t provoke crisis in Niger Delta, PANDEF warns Northern Youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, led by the South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark has warned the Northern youths not to provoke what it described as\u00a0 crisis in the Niger Delta region, with unnecessary and misguided expressions and actions.<\/p>\n<p>According to PANDEF, the\u00a0 Niger Delta people\u00a0 should not be provoked any further and that Enough is Enough.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nNational Publicity Secretary, PANDEF,\u00a0 Hon. Ken Robinson in a statement\u00a0 said that the warning became very imperative against the backdrop of\u00a0 reports that purported Northern youths, under the aegis of\u00a0 Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, demanded the termination of a reported pipeline surveillance contract awarded to a son of the Niger Delta region, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo (popularly known as Tompolo), during a protest at the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited in Abuja.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe statement read, \u201cPANDEF\u2019s statement is necessitated by reports that purported northern youths, under a so-called Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, demanded the termination of a reported pipeline surveillance contract awarded to a son of the Niger Delta region, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo (popularly known as Tompolo), during a protest at the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPANDEF cautions that the reported threat by the so-called Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups to paralyse activities at NNPC headquarters, if the said contract awarded to Government Ekpemupolo was not revoked is not only absurd and delusional but capable of sparking severe consequences in the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sending a serious warning to those misguided Arewa youths and their sponsors. Let it be known to them that the Niger Delta people will not tolerate such absurdity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTompolo, and indeed any other capable Son or Daughter of the Niger Delta, for that matter, has the right to be awarded any contract by, any agency or company, of the Federal Government, more so the NNPC Limited, whose core operations are carried out mainly in the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is reportedly losing billions of naira daily through organized, outrageous crude theft by criminals and corrupt officials, it, thus, won\u2019t be inapposite to infer that the so-called Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups were mobilized by the \u201corganized oil thieves\u201d to impede the renewed efforts of NNPC limited, to mitigate the stealing of our crude oil, and also, safeguard the nation\u2019s oil and gas assets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPANDEF notes that the Niger Delta region has continued to suffer marginalisation and isolation in critical sectors of the country, especially in the oil and gas sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile our people are denied adequate participation in, both the management and operations, of the oil and gas industry, including the Ownership of Oil Blocks and Marginal Fields, the sad reality is that people from other parts of the country, some of who do not even know what crude oil looks like but for what they see in pictures, own the bulk of oil marginal fields and blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPANDEF further notes that whereas the\u00a0 Petroleum Industry Act provided a paltry 3% of the settlor\u2019s operational cost for the Host Communities Development Trust Fund, it brazenly appropriated a humongous 30% of NNPC\u2019s oil and gas profit for a nebulous Frontier Oil Exploration Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe composition of the board and management of the new NNPC Limited is another irksome matter it is the same old narrative of inequity and lopsidedness. The South-South geopolitical zone that accounts for over 80 per cent of the nation\u2019s crude oil production and which should be bonafide shareholders has only one member on the Board. Meanwhile, oil and gas exploration activities have continued to degrade our hitherto luxuriant, healthy ecosystem, and ravage the indigenous people\u2019s means of livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritical infrastructural projects in the region have also continued to either suffer neglect or total abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven such an unpleasant background in the Niger Delta, the reported protest by the said Arewa Youths over the surveillance contract awarded to High Chief Government Ekpemupolo is most insolent and annoying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the Niger Delta people have been calm, despite the cruel injustice being meted out against them, does not mean that the people do not know what to do or lack the will to do it.&#8221;<\/p><\/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>The Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, led by the South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark has warned the Northern youths not to provoke what it described as\u00a0 crisis in the Niger&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":64951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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