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Akeredolu Faults Tompolo’s N4b Pipeline Surveillance Contract

Juliet Amaka
Juliet Amaka
Published: June 14, 2025
Last updated: June 14, 2025
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Akeredolu Faults Tompolo's N4b Pipeline Surveillance Contract
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The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has faulted the N4 billion pipeline surveillance contract awarded to the former militant leader and founder of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo.

Akeredolu, in a statement he personally signed, asked why the Federal Government, through the Office of the National Security Adviser, has been consistent in its refusal to accede to the request by some States in the Federation to strengthen the complementary initiatives adopted to protect lives and property.

He further stated that engaging private organizations and individuals to handle critical security issues in the country had further reinforced the belief that the defense architecture in the country needs an urgent overhaul.

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He added that it is safe to conclude that the Federal Government has, impliedly, permitted non-state actors to bear heavy assault weapons while denying the same privilege to the States, the Federating units.

READ ALSO: FG Did Not Give Tompolo Surveillance Contract – NNPC

The statement reads;

“The news concerning the purported award of pipeline contracts to some individuals and private organizations by the Federal Government has been unsettling.

“More disquieting is the barely disguised hostility displayed against either the idea or the actual establishment of security outfits by some State Governments to fill the widening gaps in the scope of security coverage noticeable nationally.

“All attempts to persuade the Federal Government to look, critically, into the current security architecture have been rebuffed despite the manifest fundamental defects engendered by over-centralization.

“The award of contract to private organizations to protect vandalization of pipelines raises fundamental questions on the sincerity of the advisers of the Government on security issues.

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“The open and seeming enthusiastic embrace of this oddity, despite the constant and consistent avowal of the readiness by the Security Agencies in particular the Navy to contain the pervasive and deepening crises of breaches and threats to lives and property, attracts the charge of insincerity bordering, deplorably, on dubiety.

“If the State Governments, which are keenly desirous of protecting their citizens, establish ancillary security outfits and there has been pronounced reluctance, if not outright refusal, to consider permitting them to bear arms for the sole purpose of defense, granting private individuals and or Organisations unfettered access to assault weapons suggests, curiously, deep-seated suspicion and distrust between the Federal Government and the presumed federating units.

“The Federal Government cannot be seen to be playing the Ostrich in this regard.”

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