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| Tompolo summons Ijaw militants over Buhari |
Following the revocation of his waterway protection licence by the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, one of the leading commanders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, yesterday, summoned other commanders and leaders of the various wings of the Ijaw militant group to an emergency meeting, tomorrow (Saturday) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
According to a Vanguard report, Tompolo did not state agenda of the meeting, but said the meeting, which will hold at Izon House, Yenagoa, was important.
His words, “My dearly beloved Commanders and Leaders of various wings of the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), I greet you all. It is my pleasure to humbly invite you to a very crucial and urgent meeting…”
A source told Vanguard, “The place of the Niger Delta in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and appraisal of the former President Goodluck Jonathan government in view of the current happenings in the country will be tabled for discussion at the meeting.”
He added, “The meeting is restricted only to those invited, it is not an all comers meeting, we will make our position known after the meeting.”
Tompolo and other ex-militant leaders officially disbanded MEND after they accepted amnesty offered them by the administration of late Umaru Yar’Adua in 2009.
Tomorrow’s meeting is the first time all the former commanders and leaders of the militant group are meeting formally since it was disbanded in 2009.
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