IPDI blasts Gov Diri over call to handover pipeline surveillance contract to Navy

IPDI blasts Gov Diri over call to handover pipeline surveillance contract to Navy

By Ezekiel Kagbala 

Warri _____ The Ijaw People's Development Initiative, IPDI has tackled the governor of Bayelsa State, Sen. Douye Diri for calling a review of the pipeline surveillance contract and handover it to Nigerian Navy.

The group said the call is inimical, myopic and a complete betrayal of Ijaw struggle, adding if it were given to him he wouldn't have call for a review.

The group, in a statement by its national president Amb. Ozobo Austin and its spokesman, Comrade Ezekiel Kagbala said Diri lacks power to criticise the Federal Government’s maritime protection policy of engaging private security outfits, such as Tantita Security Nigeria Limited and others to secure the maritime environment, especially in the Niger Delta. "The Navy was in charge of the pipeline surveillance and it failed to curb oil theft, hence the government resorted to option B. Except Diri is a poor student of history".

The statement reads, "Diri's recent call on the Federal Government to review the award of surveillance contract to private security was an irresponsible eye service to please the Navy. Perhaps the doggedness of the frontline private security firm, Tantita Security is puting many oil cartels out of business and the business of oil theft is no longer lucrative.

"Governor Diri is a beneficiary of Niger Delta struggle and should be protecting the interest of the region especially now that he is enjoying from the entire region's struggle. The private security firm he is referring to, duly merited the security contract due to track record of championing sustained peace that guarantee oil exploration activities to the benefits of the Federal Government and multinational companies.

"It is pertinent to state that despite the militarisation of the region for decades, oil theft unabatedly bled the nation's wealth while the cartel smiled to the banks at that time. Where was Diri when illegal oil bunkering ruined the Niger Delta environment? Where was he when 'Kpofire' was sending young people to their early Graves? It is unfortunate that Diri is currently exhibiting his selfish and ruined interest?, IPDI queried.

"We advise him to stop his anti-Ijaw campaign against High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo. He should stop this political interest, he is speaking because he felt some persons did not supported him, hence he must remove food from their mouths. May be he is afraid that those he sees as a threat may get themselves equipped through the private security contract to come and take over the state political structure from him. This is shameful, trading the collective interest of your people because of personal political interest is suicidal. Diri's current partnership with the Nigerian Navy against Ijaw nation and Niger Delta people is unfortunate, repulsive and absurd.

IPDI said Diri should not be taken serious for his disconcertion and deviation from current realities that; militarisation of the Niger Delta region does not guaranteed security of the Nation's oil wealth domiciled in the region, but encouraged oil theft even in an official capacity.

"His careless statements suggest that he (Diri) is anti-Ijaw and anti-Niger Delta, a terrible failure,  disappointment to his father's land and the entire Ijaw nation", IPDI added.

Ozobo to sponsor 50 free forms for NDA Recruitment for Burutu youths

Ozobo to sponsor 50 free forms for NDA Recruitment for Burutu youths

Warri ____ Renowned Niger Delta rights activist and a frontline chairmanship aspirant of Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State has disclosed that he will be sponsoring 50 free forms for NDA, Navy Special Enlistment and fire service recruitment for Burutu LGA youths.

Giving a breakdown, he said Nigeria Defence Academic, NDA, registration forms are 10,  Burutu South 5 and North 5. He further emphasised that Navy short service forms are 20 Altogether, Burutu South 10 and North 10 as well.

Ozobo further maintained that the Fire service forms are 20, 10 for Burutu South and 10 for the North, adding that only eligible and qualified youths with the basic requirements should apply.

He gave requirements of the NDA registration as follows; the NDA 76RC starts on Monday, 23rd October 2023 and ends on Tuesday, 19th March 2024. All the applicants should log in to the NDA 76RC application portal https://ndaapplications.net/, and select “Purchase Form” to pay for their application via REMITA in the sum of N3,500.00 only. Please note that only payment against RRR Codes generated via the application portal will be accessed.

The application forms must be submitted together with the scanned SSCE results online.

On the submission of the online application, applicants are to download an Acknowledgement Form.

"Only the applicants who Possess the minimum admission requirements would be considered for the Screening Test. Your WAEC, NECO and other relevant certificates.

The UTME score for Engineering is 210 points. For those of Arts & Social Sciences and Science is 180 points. All applicants are expected to also apply for the 2024 Joint Admissions And Matriculation Examination (JAMB), and choose NDA as their first choice of institution. Applicants are expected to also sit for the JAMB UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION EXAMINATION (UTME).

You will be required to provide your personal information, including your name, date of birth, passport photo, BVN, NIN, and email address. You will also need to provide your academic information.

"Once you have submitted your application, you will need to wait until the Nigerian Defence Academy shortlists the successful candidates for the 76 Regular Course. If you are accepted, you will be invited to attend an interview with the Academy’s selection board. All the candidates who apply for the NDA 76Rc are also advised to get the NDA Past Questions And Answers PDF from our website or you can also visit the Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna to get the hard copy", he added.

While requirements for Navy short service registration are;

"•Applicant must be a Nigerian citizen by birth.

•Applicants are warned against giving false information or tendering fake certificates. Any false information or fake certificates discovered at any stage will lead to disqualification and subsequent prosecution of the applicant.

"•Applicants must possess a minimum of Second Class Upper Division for holders of First degree and Upper Credit for HND holders. Computer literacy will be an added advantage in all fields.

•Applicants must possess certificates of full registration with their respective statutory professional bodies in Nigeria.

•Applicants who obtained credentials from foreign institutions should ensure the certificates are authenticated by the Federal Ministry of Education and copies of all certificates are to be submitted at chosen aptitude test centres.

"•All applicants must present an O'level West African Examination Certificate (WAEC), in addition to any other results such as NECO. •Credit in Mathematics and English is compulsory.

• An NYSC discharge certificate or letter of exemption from NYSC is a compulsory requirement for enlistment.

•Male applicants must not be less than 1.68 meters tall while female applicants must not be less than 1.65 meters tall. Passport photograph.

"•Applicants should be between 22 and 28 years of age by 25 March 2024. Except Medical Officers who should not be more than 30 years.

•Serving personnel, Soldiers/Rating/Airmen, and other paramilitary services personnel must obtain a letter of attestation duly signed by the heads of their units.

•Applicants will be shortlisted for a qualifying aptitude test. The date and time of the aptitude test will be communicated via the Nigerian Navy website: www.joinnigeriannavy.com

"•Applicants are to appear for the Aptitude Test with the following:

Photocopies of Degree and NYSC Discharge Certificate.

Parent / Guardian Consent Form.

Acknowledgement Form.

Photocopies of foreign certificates (if any).

•You will be required to provide your personal information, including your name, date of birth, passport photo, BVN, NIN, email address and local government origin. You will also need to provide your academic information.

•On completion of the application form, applicants are advised to click "SUBMIT" on the portal to generate the applicant's Transaction ID. Applicants are thereafter advised to print out a copy of the "Application Summary".

He further gave information, requirements and available positions for the fire service recruitment registration;

"Inspector of Fire (IF): 

Registered nurses, midwives, or nurse-midwives are needed. (Nursing skills to the rescue!)

"Assistant Inspector of Fire (AIF):

NCE or National Diploma in any related field is a must. (Knowledge is power!)

"Fire Assistant II (FA II): 

GCE Ordinary level with five credits, including English and Math, is your ticket in. (Sharp minds, sharp skills!)

"Fire Assistant III (FAIII) & Appliance Driver (Specialist): 

Similar to FA II, a driver’s license is a bonus. (Get ready to steer and extinguish!)

 

"Requirements

Be a Nigerian citizen.

Possess the required qualifications. (No shortcuts!)

Be fit and healthy, with a doctor’s approval.

Have a clean criminal record and good character.

Avoid secret societies, cults, and drugs.

Be between 18 and 35 years old.

Stand tall at 1.65m (men) or 1.60m (women).

Have a strong chest (men only!).

Bonus points for computer skills".

You will be required to provide your personal information, including your name, date of birth, passport photo, BVN, NIN, email address and local government origin. You will also need to provide your academic information.

According to him, the registration would be done in Warri by Olivebyte computer centre, beside Oasis Hotel, at Okumagba Estate junction,  beginning on Monday 15th January 2024.

He advised eligible and qualified applicants of Burutu Local Government Area to contact Mr Afore Theodore on 07062288246 for further enquiries and documentation.

Just-ln: Tantita Security, NSCDC Nab Another Vessel for Oil Theft in Bayelsa

Just-ln: Tantita Security, NSCDC Nab Another Vessel for Oil Theft in Bayelsa 

Yenagoa _____ Barely 24 hours after the Nigerian Navy, led by the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, launched a new outfit, “Operation Delta Sanity” with pomp in Warri, Delta State, to halt oil theft, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Ltd (TSSNL), in collaboration with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested another vessel allegedly engaged in stealing crude oil in Niger Delta.

The vessel, MT Kali with number 8782800, was intercepted on Thursday while allegedly transporting a voluminous tonnes of illegal crude oil from offshore Sokebolou Field base in Bayelsa State.

TSSNL, a pipeline surveillance security firm, is owned by a former militant commander in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.

Among those arrested and kept in custody aboard the vessel as of Friday night are Promise Eze and David Adeboye who were identified as the engineer and captain of the vessel.

Adeboye was quoted as saying their accomplices included some  folks in some oil communities in Bayelsa State.

Feelers had it that the crew and their local accomplices were engaged in the act of siphoning crude oil into the vessel from offshore Sokebolou Field in Bayelsa State when the combined operatives of TSSNL and NSCDC swooped on them.

It was gathered that the first manifold of the vessel was being  loaded with the crude oil before the interception of the security operatives.

TSSNL is said to have intimated the incident to the National Security Officer (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and the board and management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL).

The two principal suspects, Eze and Adeboye were grilled by the Executive Director, Operations, TSSNL, Captain Warriedi Enisuoh.

He said the vessel was mobilised from Lagos to load crude oil illegally from offshore locations in Bayelsa State.

Ekiti State-born Adeboye, according to Enisuoh, said the vessel departed Lagos following assurances by their boss, whom they identified as one Adeniyi, that all security agencies (which he didn’t name) along the shore had been “settled” for a free passage.

He, however, identified the thieving company’s name as San-San

Meanwhile, the thieving vessel, MT Kali, is said to have been anchored at an NNPCL location in Oporoza, the headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Delta State, while further investigation are said to be ongoing.

New Year: Capt. Para Splashes Wrappers, Cash to Elderly Women in Burutu

New Year: Capt. Para Splashes Wrappers, Cash to Elderly Women in Burutu

Francis Tayor

Warri ______ ln the spirit of yuletide and giving back to the society of what God has blessed him over the years, a renowned Niger Delta great philanthropist cum sailor, Captain Alfred Ebikeseye Para, fondly called Big Fredo, has distributed wrappers and cash gifts worth millions of naira to the elderly women, men and widows in Toru-Tebegbe Community of Tuomo-lbe (TT Clan) in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.

Captain Para presented the items on Wednesday 10th January, 2024 as he visited home to celebrate the New Year with them, saying it is part of his lifestyle in putting smile on the faces of the needy and render humanitarian services to the society.

He noted that our Lord Jesus Christ preaches love your neighbour as you love yourself, hence the world would be a better place to dwell in for both the young and the old if we can show little love to one another.

Big Fredo stated that as far as God provides and keep him and family alive in good health, he will continue to render charity services to the elderly men, women, widows and the needy in the society, adding that it gives him joy whenever he put smile on others. 

In their reactions, the beneficiaries was overwhelmed and excited with the gift items given to them by captain Para, praying God to replenish his pocket with more money, wealth and good health with longlife and prosperity.

However, read below full details of the statement:

CAPTAIN ALFRED EBIKESEYE PARA SHOWS LOVE TO TEBEGBE COMMUNITY.

The Scriptures in all the known religions of the world admonish the sons and daughters of earth to be liberal to one another. It's one of the proofs of true love -- what the Greeks call Agape. Where and whenever this divine love is communicated by action, the rest of us are bound by heaven and earth to show gratitude to such benefactors.This is what is happening now in Tebegbe community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.

The philanthropist and communal patriot, Captain Alfred Ebikeseye Para, today gave out cash gifts and clothes to old men,women and widows in Tebegbe  community, knowing fully well that they need such assistance to be able to keep their flames for life burning. In a world where people are daily working for selfish ends, Captain Para decided to live for others. In a world where people exploit their communities to enrich themselves, here is a man, who out of love and compassion for the poverty-stricken, is giving out his hard-earned money to put smile on the faces of his people.

Our society will hardly experience the transformation and development we seek for until we learn to put the cap of leadership on the heads of men like Captain Para. The day we discover that men like Captain Para are the best captains to pilot the ships of our community, and fulfill that discovery by encouraging, supporting, endorsing and electing them to occupy positions of influence, power, and authority, is the day things will begin to turn around for our good.

We beg all other leaders of the Niger Delta, especially Ijaw Nation, to emulate the benevolent lifestyle of Captain ALFRED EBIKESEYE PARA, in reaching out to the needy, in helping the helpless, in giving hope to the hopeless and in comforting the comfortless. And our society will be better for it.

PAP: lYC President visits Ndiomu, calls for increased funding of Presidential Amnesty Programme

PAP: lYC President visits Ndiomu, calls for increased funding of Presidential Amnesty Programme

Warri _____ President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Sir Jonathan Lokpobiri, has advocated for an upward review of the allocation accruable to the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) from the Federal Government's purse.

Lokpobiri who made this patriotic call on Monday in Abuja while on a courtesy visit to the PAP Interim Administrator, Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd), called for a strict intervention support from the Federal Government to enable the PAP meet up with current realities and expectations.

"With the fast decrease in value of the Naira, a N65billion annual funding is a far cry. N65billion of now cannot do what N65billion of before would have done," he said adding that, "It is our appeal to the Government of President Bola Tinubu that there needs to be a review".

While noting that the Programme has been "tremendously successful" in terms of impacting lives of young Niger Deltans, he expressed the commitment and readiness of the IYC as the umbrella body of young people in the region to partner and work "strategically" with Ndiomu to further reposition the PAP.

In his remarks, the Interim Administrator commended the IYC President for his acknowledgement of paucity of funds in the PAP. "When people make comments without getting their facts right, it becomes displeasing," he said of Lokpobiri's acknowledgement of the current realities of the value of naira to dollar.

Ndiomu further charged the IYC leadership to take up the responsibility of preaching the many success stories of the PAP to young people in the region, advise them to drop the culture of laziness and indolence, and begin to think of "bigger" ways to sustainably improve their lives.

Clearing the air on the Amnesty's Scholarship programmes, Ndiomu reiterated the scheme is ongoing, and that his administration has cleared all academic bills of its beneficiaries, both for local and foreign students.

Ndiomu called on the Ijaw nation to "check its excesses", and explore ways of working with other ethnic nationalities of the Niger Delta region to drive "peace, unity and harmony".

While decrying the "disturbing" level of poverty in Ijaw land, the Interim Administrator expressed worry that young people in Niger Delta are not taking full advantage of the enormous opportunities in the region. Among these, he listed the vast natural habitat for rice farming, and the untapped potentials of oil palm production.

He also renewed his call for the possibility of the Presidential Amnesty Programme transiting into a Social Intervention Programme, insisting that the sustainable peace being enjoyed in the region is "90 percent" traceable to the various innovative programmes of the PAP that are deliberately aimed at improving the lives of young people.

Governor Oborevwori, the Fiction and the Truth-By: Ekanpou Enewaridikedeke

Governor Oborevwori, the Fiction and the Truth-By: Ekanpou Enewaridikedeke

Impetuous and  irrational denigratory  written communications are always seen like water-weeds in the river whenever  elections are about to be held.Sometimes these irrational denigratory outbursts are targeted to conceal a premeditated evil plot hatched for arcane  advantageous placement over their opponents during the conduct of the election.In most cases it is usually after the  concealed consolidation of their election-rigging strategies that they  cover the media space with impulsive irrational outbursts weighted to further reinforce the implementation target of their evil plot as inventive red herrings.Silence becomes suicidal when such moves are spotted.This is the inspiration behind today's journey.

Governor  Oborevwori is undistractedly  a man brimful of  fertile development ideas. Because  his development ideas are pragmatically  fresh and fertile, Julius Berger Plc, the construction giant, is currently in Warri to drive the fertile developmental vision of Governor Oborevwori.Yet, rather ungratefully dead to the developmental productivity of the Delta State Governor, in an ideationally limping, 'kwashiorkord' piece merchandised as a creative red herring entitled 'The Planned Military Intimidation of Alapala Supporters' authored by Moni Seimienghan and  BEKE P. Black of Burutu APC on 6 January 2024, the developmentally determined and situated governor of Delta State, His Excellency Sheriff Oborevwori, was impulsively denigrated in ponderous protesting paragraphs. This is condemnable and  must therefore be correspondingly interrogated  as the antidote to verbal impetuosity.

It is known to everyone in Delta State that House of Assembly re-run election has been scheduled to be held on 3 February 2024 between  Hon.Asupa and Alapala in unit 8 of Ayakoromo in ward seven, and units 9 of Oboro, 26 of Edegbene and 27 of Enekorogha in ward four in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State . It is also a  fact that Hon.Asupa has clear victory possibilities in the four units because they had remained  the unconquered territories of PDP for ages in every election.It would therefore be a fiction for Alapala to get any vote in these four PDP territories in the scheduled re-run.It is only fictional wishful thinkers who incidentally mention Alapala in any matter that borders on the four units where the re-run is awaited because it is only the Asupa DIALECT that is authorised and spoken in the four units of Oboro, Edegbene, Enekorogha and Ayakoromo.

There is no existing record of intimidation of voters anchored by Governor OBorevwori through deployment of gunboats to strategic points either in any election or in  the affected units of the awaited re-run in Delta State. The scheduled re-run is the first election to be held in Delta State with His Excellency Oborevwori as the governor of Delta State.How did the APC come to know the operational strategy of a man yet to be seen in action during election when everybody knows that use of gunboat is the prerogative of federal forces in Abuja under APC government?

 Conduct of re-run is the constitutional responsibility of INEC, not that of Governor Oborevwori of Delta State.The pronouncement by Burutu Council APC that Governor Oborevwori has perfected plans to intimidate voters using gunboats and boys is an infantlle, baseless, reckless and impetuous one condemnable in every breath, though the authors of this impulsive and misguided pronouncement have timely condemned and dismissed it as unbelievable by saying that their position is powered by an idle anonymous source.

The  unbelievability, meaninglessness and baselessness of the authors of the impulsive pronouncement is reinforced by their addition that the governor of Delta State has also given instruction to boys to  'cause bloodbath if the election didn't go their way'.In one breath the governor is accused of planned deployment of gunboats; in another breath the governor is accused of using boys.Where will be the turf of the boys if indeed gunboats are deployed?What is the nexus between boys and gunboats?Who are those boys?Any existing record to show that the Delta State governor has a pool of boys from which he could draw and deploy to cause bloodbath in election?Has Governor Oborevwori ever been associated with electoral bloodbath in Delta State?

The incongruity in the use of gunboats and boys shows that the two authors are confused people unqualified to feature in public discourses or interactions because their public pronouncement is motivated by a pathological desire to spoil the name of Governor Oborevwori in relation to the awaited re-run.

Criticism is an integral part of the business of governance because the aim is to chart a progressive part for the government.Office holders are subject to criticism when developing issues necessitate it, not when there are absolutely no issues to be engaged critically.To accuse Governor Oborevwori of planned intimidation of voters  without developing issues that necessitate it points to the fact that the two impulsive authors of lies are totally dead to how elections are usually conducted in any country  - which raises a question mark on their educational credentials and exposure.It also tells the world in clear language that the two confused and disorientated authors have grown pathologically jittery over the impending electoral failure  of Hon.Alapala in the re-run because the four units have unambiguously communicated their  total support for Hon.Asupa. A would-be loser in any electoral engagement is always known to embrace the path of a reputational spoiler as it is being activated against the Delta State Governor Oborevwori by the above two misguided impetuous authors.

The denigratory outburst of the two impulsive authors must have been provoked by a pathological desire to instigate and attract calculated specific federal forces in an election likely to be won by Hon.Asupa with a clear margin.The instigation-consolidated denigratory outburst and complaints of the two confused authors have the character of a veneer for electoral manipulation they  must have devised to wound PDP ELECTORALLY  in the re-run. It is in the character of some persons to devise an advantageous  abnormality in disguise and be the first to embrace the accusatory path as a strategic smokescreen to achieve their target  -  which is what is visible in the denigratory accusatory dance of the impulsive authors.

There are moments one is caught sitting down to evaluate a written communication deposited for readers in a public forum. By every standard of evaluation, Seimienghan(Burutu LGA APC Chairman) and Black(Burutu LGA APC Secretary) are indeed authors and peddlers of nonsense because it is disgusting and nonsensical to verbalise in the public space that the speakership of Hon.Emomotimi Guwor in the Delta State House of Assembly does not enjoy the support and blessing of Governor Oborevwori  and that 'Hon .Michael Dedien AKA Ejele' has always mounted persistent pressure on the Delta State Governor to return Hon.Asupa to the House to assume the speakership as the basis to sustain the structure that produced the governor.This is what they call arrant nonsense regurgitated by the two impulsive authors of lies.Is the governor of a state capacitated to return to the House a non-member and make him a speaker?Is Governor Oborevwori a legislator to be part of the House politics?Why is there a cordiality between the House and the executive arm of government in Delta State where the speakership does not enjoy the blessings of the governor?

Governor Oborevwori should not be bothered by the impulsive outburst of people burdened by ideational constipation and fear of electoral victory. For persons who peddle falsehood from an archive of information that does not exist  anywhere in Burutu Local Government Area    -   a diseased archive that only exists in their imagination  -  only constipation could be their burden which has greatly harmed their political metabolism within the party.

It is safe to say that the publication credited to Burutu APC is a fabrication whose authorship is the individual creation of Seimienghan and Black who have their own personal agenda pursued in the name of APC because the progression of the publication from the Organisation of ideas to communication of the ideas does not have the hallmark of a group position.The publication shows a forced ponderous coupling of disjointed ideas inherent in the immiscibility of oil and water.The ideas don't indicate coherence and unity as disorderly communicated in protesting ponderous paragraphs that cannot meaningfully exhaust one single idea created in a paragraph  -  as their ponderous  impetuous mental exhaustion has the hallmark of a deliberate distraction targeted at the governor of Delta State.

Occasionally, ideas find themselves engaged in warfare when falsehood is injected into a reading space  -  as it has been done by the two famous lie-peddlers.No protesting paragraphs would have been identified in the piece if the publication were a product of persons dialectically grounded in public communication.A governor of Oborevwori's statuture powered  by an ideology of development of Delta State  cannot be bothered and lose sleep over a baseless watery publication authored impulsively by Seimienghan and Black in their chosen moment of  ideational constipation.

Let the two misguided impulsive authors know that Governor Oborevwori is not INEC charged  with the responsibility of conducting  the awaited re-run election.His Excellency Oborevwori is the governor of Delta State who has ideologically distinguished  himself with enhanced peace and security as one of the cardinal principles of his MORE agenda and so will never be associated with anything redolent of violence, bloodbath, disenfranchisement, suppression, intimidation of voters, do-or-die politics and would not tolerate any individuals or groups who have evil plot to create security problems under any umbrella because he is a governor for all Deltans.The Burutu Council APC Chairman and Secretary  who have arrogated to themselves the right to peddle lies should henceforth refrain from dragging Governor Oborevwori's name into matters he knows nothing about because he is the governor of Delta State whose governance style has not attracted or accumulated mud.

Finally, mental alertness and mental debility which  have  describable markers anywhere on earth do vary in their colouration.To accuse Governor Oborevwori of something  out of nothingness could be viewed as a case of political impetuosity, political alertness or political debilitation.If this is what Seimienghan and Black call political alertness or political debilitation, these two impulsive peddlers of lies must be applauded by Deltans for being the first  honourable recipients of the prize of political impetuosity, political alertness and political debilitation which may soon find a partner in ideational emptiness, ideational debility and ideational 'Oberikoberi' of Hon.Julius Otuwo Eyenanaotu's creation in Ayakoromo.And for impetuous peddlers of lies like Seimienghan and Black who shamelessly elevate lies and fiction and superimpose them on the known truth as a calculated strategy to distract Governor Oborevwori, history shall be harsh to them...

 BY:EKANPOU ENEWARIDIDEKE

Writes from Akparemogbene, Delta State.

BY: EKANPOU

 ENEWARIDIDEKE

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Okpokunou crisis: Family calls CP intervention over attack, torture of diseased family after arrest of murder mastermind, Tokekeme

Okpokunou crisis: Family calls CP intervention over attack, torture of diseased family after arrest of murder mastermind, Tokekeme

* Ogbosain family says over N200 million property destroyed by attackers

Warri ______ The families of  Ogbosan in Okpokunou and Obotebe community both in Burutu LGA of Delta state have petitioned the Delta state police command   of continued attack,  the brutalization and harassment of Ogbosain family members by some persons in Okpokunou community over successful arrest of Tokekeme  Egbouke, 

the mastermind of the murder of Daniel Chukwuemeka Ogbasain. 

That since the arrest of the murder prime suspect and mastermind,  the Ogbosan family members have been made to face different excruciating torture, threat of  murder, assault and brutalization of the Ogbosain family members in Okpokunou town in Burutu local government area of Delta state. 

In a petition to the Delta State commissioner of Police  Mr. Wale Abass and copied the Inspector General of  Police (IGP), Abuja signed by the Ogbosan family lawyers, Israel O. Nwokeiwe Esq, B. F Mabiko Esq and F. Famateigha Esq  on the on behalf of the Ogbasain family in Okpokunou community and that of Obotebe community  by the following family leaders Mr  Godspower Akpos and Moses Okpako Ogboain  of Okpokunou Community and Mr. Diare Samuel  Perezide of Obotebe Community, all in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. 

They lamented"'

The Okpokunou Community on aforesaid date and apprehended Mr. Tojejeme Egbouke, the principal mastermind of the murder of Mr. Daniel Chukwuemeka Ogbosain and handed him over to the police the same day. It is our clients’ further information that upon the said arrest which the supporters and followers of Mr. Tojejeme Egbouke attempted to resist, the said followers went on rampage and started attacking members of our clients’ family within the community and others perceived to have masterminded the arrest and went about destroying properties and valuables worth over N200,000.00 (Two Hundred Million Naira) by estimation, brutalizing and maiming several persons with intent to kill them leaving them in very critical and near death conditions. The assailants who have been clearly listed above further went about destroying dwelling houses and buildings belonging to members of our clients’ family and all other persons perceived to have a hand in the arrest and apprehension of the community chairman who is a murder suspect, which destruction, vandalization, attack, maiming and series of assault have continued unabatedly from the aforesaid date of arrest till date. The assailants have in furtherance of their brazen resistance and protest over the arrest of the community chairman continued to hold members of our clients’ family in incarceration subjecting them to several dehumanizing treatments, putting them in some local detention cells and further subjecting them to horrible conditions in which some persons are tied up and fastened to electric poles within the community and left in such conditions for very long periods until some prescribed fees are paid for their release'' 

The petition mentioned the following persons in Okpokunou town  of carrying out an attack, assault, harassment and torture of family members of Ogbosain in Okpokunou. 

They are: Wilson Chamber (Operation leader)  ThankGod Ayenbo ThankGod Matthew Emomotimi  Eseoru Dimene SecretaryTarela Secretary Moses EdounboFred Foun Weighti Petrol Kurokeme Sapele (arm dealer)Theophilus Service Emmanuel Ezonfade Wilfred Serikebebe Charles Kolman Stephe AmgbaraFelix Oyafegha Stanley Afro CeylonClement Ebe Beke Ezonfade Awini Talbot Chief Secretary Amgbara Stephen Kerebu Eginren Jonathan Woko Aguade Chief Francis Kekere Togo, Ezonfade Peter Adeka Alex Albert Kenneth Gube Sunday John Ofiti Prince Ladaufa Arthur Dude Power Dude Boro Icebreakers Fiemotonghan Edumu Menearebunughan John Lawyer Bosele Febor Jeremiah Kangu Akigidi Titan Badukeme Police Keke Complain Solomon DisiPowei Arthur Nelson DekeseiAya-ogbo Kolma Harrison Yerinbolou-emi Peres Kurokeme Jacob Appah Okotiebor Ayakeme Eyoro-ere Enieke Ogese Pereokosufa KabokemeEkamata Bilabiri Aya-ogbo( Ekamata Nephew)Frank Shopware Owotorofa Apamo Felix Ngo Ayemi, and others  sponsored  by Barr. Luna Ocholor (Nee Aliya) – Principal Secretary to the Governor of Delta State. Hon. Kelvin Adamu Kabokeme Chief Secretary Amgbara Chief Joel Ebigbagha Amakamu Chief Francis Kekere Chief Hardwood Woto Chief Ekole Free Mathew ThankGod Alfred Apenapena Delimor Alfred Efidi Bilabiri Ofege Aliyah Adangbe Shopware Boro Serikebebe Felix Oyafegha Sunday Ofiti Gbenekeme Agbai Pamokere Sugar-egbidi Peter Adeka Okotiebor Agbai Pereokosufa Kabokeme Ojobolo Deine Daulayefa Wenetone.

"We  have been briefed and our professional legal services retained by MESSRS. AKPOS A. GODSPOWER and MOSES OKPAKO OGBOSAIN of Okpokunou Community and MR. DIARE SAMUEL PEREZIDE of Obotebe Community, all in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State of Nigeria (hereinafter referred to as “Our Clients”) pursuant to whose very clear, firm and specific instructions to act in connection with the hereinabove contained subject matter, we hereby petition your security conscious office.

Continued "Our  clients have informed us that they have an earlier petition dated 31st May, 2023 pending before your office bordering on the murder of one Mr. Daniel Chukwuemeka Ogbosain in which the principal suspects are HRM PERE AYEMI CHARLES BOTU (now late) and TOKEKEME EGBOUKE (the Okpokunou Community Chairman) amongst others, being community leaders who took laws into their hands and lynched the deceased to death and impunitively interred his body.That given the gravity of the offence involved in the aforesaid complaint of 31st May, 2023, your office through your officers at the Homicide Section swung into action but could not effect any arrest or apprehend any of the suspects despite several attempts due to the force of resistance put up by the suspects and their cohorts who are permanently resident in Okpokunou Community. In one of those attempts, the officers who went for the arrest were almost lynched but narrowly escaped the planned attack on them, whence it became practically impossible for the officers to go into the community to carry out their lawful duties of apprehending the alleged murderers, hence they became confronted with a stalemate. That because of our clients’ persistence to get justice over the death of their son who was gruesomely murdered by the named suspects in the said earlier petition, the officers were recently propelled to resume their efforts to arrest and apprehend the suspects in the said petition and it took the support, assistance and intervention of the Military Joint Task Force based in the nearby Bomadi Town in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State to successfully apprehend one of the suspects on Saturday, 23rd December, 2023. The said Joint Task Force moved into the Okpokunou Community on in aforesaid date and apprehended Mr. Tokekeme Egbou the principal mastermind of the murder of Mr. Daniel Chukwuemeka Ogbosain and handed him over to the police same day. It is our clients’ further information that upon the said arrest which the supporters and followers of Mr. Tokekeme Egbouke attempted to resist, the said followers went on rampage and started attacking members of our clients’ family within the community and others perceived to have masterminded the arrest and went about destroying properties and valuables worth over N200,000.00 (Two Hundred Million Naira) by estimation, brutalizing and maiming several persons with intent to kill them leaving them in very critical and near death conditions. The assailants who have been clearly listed above further went about destroying dwelling houses and buildings belonging to members of our clients’ family and all other persons perceived to have a hand in the arrest and apprehension of the community chairman who is a murder suspect, which destruction, vandalization, attack, maiming and series of assault have continued unabatedly from the aforesaid date of arrest till date. The assailants have in furtherance of their brazen resistance and protest over the arrest of the community chairman continued to hold members of our clients’ family in incarceration subjecting them to several dehumanizing treatments, putting them in some local detention cells and further subjecting them to horrible conditions in which some persons are tied up and fastened to electric poles within the community and left in such conditions for very long periods until some prescribed fees are paid for their release. It is our clients’ clear-cut information that the assailants have stated in no uncertain terms that unless MR. Tokekeme Egbouke (the murder suspect) is released back to them, they will continue to wreak havoc on members of our clients’ family and every other person perceived to be connected with the said arrest, who at the moment are severally displaced, chased out of the community and given several degrees of injuries. It is our clients’ further information that the situation at hand has left many displaced, rendered homeless and running for their lives to avoid being killed by the assailants who are minded to waste the lives of anyone perceived to be connected to the arrest of the said murder suspect, wherefore our clients’ family members and all other persons within the circle of their perceived enemies are now living in palpable fear and apprehension. That the Head of the Village Police Post in the community who ought to take immediate action to nip in the bud the situation that has escalated to this level is also handicapped and helpless, as he is also a victim of the lawlessness paraded by the suspects and all along, the police at the community has never had the chance to exercise any form of authority, as they do not have the strength to either match or overpower the suspects in order to subject them to the law. In fact, on the very occasion when your officers went into Okpokunou Community to arrest some of the murder suspects and were almost lynched by their followers and cohorts; after their escape, the head of the village police post was made to face very unsavory treatment owing to the attempt made by your officers to come into the community to apprehend suspects.   DISCERNIBLE FACTS:That the aforementioned facts and circumstances evinces a clear situation of crisis in Okpokunou Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State of Nigeria and given the antecedents of the assailants and all their co-travelers in relation to the issue of the murder of DANIEL CHUKWUEMEKA OGBOSAIN, no security agency is willing to go into the community to restore order and restrain the assailants from further acts of maiming, attacking, wounding and brutalizing their victims including the wanton destruction of properties, dwelling houses and buildings. That the situation in Okpokunou Community would snowball into a full-blown crisis when our clients’ family members and other families within the community whose family members are continuously attacked, maimed and rendered homeless resorts to retaliatory actions to prevent the unending attacks unleashed on them, unless very urgent steps are taken to apprehend the perpetrators of these heinous crimes and brought to book to face justice. PASSIONATE APPEAL:It is our clients’ passionate appeal that you immediately and urgently wade into the situation to curb further attacks on their family members and other targeted victims including the wanton destruction of properties and to particularly restore order in the community which at the point in time is in a state of total breakdown of law and order as the assailants continue to brazenly carry out whatever acts they desire to, continuously inflicting various degrees of pain on people, destroying people’s livelihoods, maiming and wounding people and subjecting people to several inhuman and degrading treatments including the wanton destruction of properties, belongings, dwelling houses and buildings.It is pertinent to further bring to your attention the fact that the foremost demand of the assailants is for the release of the murder suspect Tokekeme Egbouke to them and these assailants are strongly backed by the sponsors aforementioned in their lawless activities, and are more particularly empowered by one Barr. Luna Ocholor (Nee Aliya), the Principal Secretary to the Governor of Delta State to be taking the actions they are taking as she has assured them that she will do everything within her powers to ensure that the said murder suspect is released. It is in view of the foregoing that our clients have instructed us in very clear and specific terms to PETITION your security conscious office to wade into the crisis situation roiling their Okpokunou Community in line with the powers, functions and mandate of the police force to wade in to rescue their family members and other victims from the continuous molestation and attacks meted out on them and we hereby so petition. It is our sincere belief that your offices would waste no further time but give this petition the attention and urgency it deserves by immediately swinging into action to effect the arrest of all the suspects above mentioned and to prosecute them to a logical conclusion, as our clients are ready, minded and willing to honour your invitations and office scheduled interview sessions to defend this petition to the letter. Please be assured of our best regards as we anticipate your usual cooperation" the petition added.