*Tompolo dismissed threats by the oil bunkers.
Former Militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and security officials have discovered 42 more tapping points by crude oil bunkers on the nation’s oil pipelines in Delta and Bayelsa states bringing the total to 58.
Actual News Gathered that the breakthrough came as bunkers, angry with the leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, for exposing their unlawful business, in the past few weeks, sent him and operatives his Tantita Security Services Limited, TSSL, threat messages.
However, Tompolo, who spoke to reporters, yesterday, at Oporoza, the traditional headquarters of Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West local government area, Delta state, dismissed the threat by the oil bunkers.
It would be recalled that the Chief of Defense Staff, General Lucky Irabor, and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Engr. Mele Kyari, visited Delta state, last Friday, when Tantita reported the discovery of 16 tapping points on the trans-Forcados pipeline, which NNPCL had clamped.
Tompolo said, “In Delta, three major crude pipelines, including the trans-Escravos and Trans- Ramos lines have been tapped by oil bunkers.
“The tapping points that were traced on Friday were with the help of the Nigerian security, which was why inside the rain and everything, we could trace the lines
“We are doing the work together with the security agents; we are only providing intelligence for the security to assist to do the work.
He further revealed that , “the way we are going now, we are getting cooperation from all the security agencies, both the ones in the state here and at the top.
Therefore, by the grace of God, in no distant time, we will stop this largely.”
The Ex- Militant leader said the company was not facing any major challenge, adding, “At a very point in time, we will always provide the intelligence and security people will come and do the work.”
On the barricading of creeks by oil bunkers with trees, he said: “That is the more reason we are involved, if we see any creek that is blocked with trees, we will bring in motor-saw people to cut it and we go inside.”
