-By Zik Gbemre
TINUBU MUST NULLIFY APPOINTMENT OF TOMPOLO'S STOOGE, DENNIS OTUARO AS THE COORDINATOR OF PRESIDENTIAL AMNESTY PROGRAM.
The Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP) has been hijacked by Tompolo and no longer serving the intended common good.
Who do you blame? I blame President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for succumbing to the biddings of Tompolo. It was said that a retired Military General from another tribe of Niger-Delta was to be appointed but Tompolo being a violent ex-militant coerced Tinubu to appoint his kinsman Dennis Brutu Otuaro.
I fault Tinubu for yielding to the threat by Tompolo who is also benefiting from Multi-billion naira surveillance contract and yet illegal bunkering is on the increase. The oil & gas rich Niger-Delta of the South South region is not owned by Tompolo.
Tompolo should restrain self and understand that Niger-Delta is not his personal property. It is owned by all indigenous people of the Niger Delta.The struggle for the Niger-Delta was on before the birth of Tompolo the self-imposed leader.
Reasonable and quiet people should not be taken for a ride in the region. The idea of rewarding violent people in Nigeria should be discouraged. 'Education is a scam' slogan is not a sign of development for any country.
A country that rewards violent, uninformed people is doomed. It means education in Nigeria is useless and they should just teach the younger generation to be violent and do evil since it is the thriving occupation in Nigeria.
In Delta, 'Agberos' and thugs are the power brokers hence all the violent youths have been appointed SSAs by all the past governors of Delta including Gov Sheriff Oborevwori. The more violent you are the more patronage you enjoy from federal government and Delta state government.
This must stop. No person has monopoly of violence. Tinubu, do the right thing and stop being threatened by one individual because he is a violent person.
Few days ago we heard Tompolo donated transit building to the Nigerian Military in Effurun Army Barracks. What a country are we that an individual is now doing housing charity for the Nigerian military as transit houses and they gladly celebrated it in the media.
Shame on the military to have accepted such a Greek gift from ex-militant. So an individual can just wake up and build a house in a military barracks. What is behind this Greek gift?
Tinubu and his military chiefs must tell Nigerians the motive of this Tompolo's charity.The appointment of Otuaro as Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Program must be reversed and the needful must be done.
One violent individual cannot just lord it over all indigenous people of the Niger Delta region. The region belongs to all of us. Tompolo, whatever they call him is not the owner of Delta state and Niger Delta region. The peaceful people should be allowed to live as well.
As narrated by Smart Ofugara, "In Nigeria, our values of having the common good for everyone and society is absent. Take a look at the name ‘I better pass my neighbor’ generator; what does it tell you?
"Take a look at the level of ineptitude with the stealing being done and the use to which it is put: They steal to build mansions, buy luxury cars, drink expensive wine and what next… No farming, no manufacturing, no production, no research, growth in churches and promises of fake miracles. No good health care system. Rather we have fear, and fear and distrust and garbage in society. I’m ashamed".
Really, it's shameful that no more core values it is all about thuggery and violence and you are rewarded to join them to steal or nominate your kinsmen to be appointed to steal for you. Tompolo can't dictate for Delta state and Niger Delta people. He can only dictate for self and his Ijaw people.
I blame Tinubu to succumb to threat by Tompolo to have appointed Tompolo's kinsman Dennis Brutu Otuaro as PAP Cordinator. Yar’Adua appointed Gen Godwin Abbe as the first coordinator of PAP and later Air Vice Marshall Ochuko Ararile and the program was well coordinated and funds diligently allocated and every person connected was happy.
As Jonathan came in and made the coordinator's office a patronage entitlement for Tompolo and his Ijaw tribe only and PAP drifted into a cesspool of corruption where Tompolo hijacked the program.
Tompolo and Ijaw people brag about being the violent mongers who brought Amnesty program and must enjoy the coordinator’s office exclusively for as long as PAP exists.
I won't advise neighbouring tribes to be violent and copy Tompolo's violence. Tinubu's led APC administration is creating the misleading impression to the world that only Ijaw tribe exists in South South of the Niger-Delta or even bear oil & gas in the Niger-Delta of South-South region.
It is a dangerous trend that does no party any good if Tinubu fails to reward the law abiding tribes in the South-South region while gratifying violent people with PAP and Bogus Surveillance Contracts.
Zik Gbemre
September 24, 2024
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