BEVERLY HILLS, AUGUST 8, (THEWILL) – Former MEND Commander, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, has debunked the recently released report that he is among the sponsors of Niger Delta Avengers, NDA which has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on oil infrastructures in the Niger Delta.
A splinter group of the NDA, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, had last week named him, former President Goodluck Jonathan and other prominent individuals as sponsoring the militant group.
But Tompolo, in a statement issued by the Secretary, Tompolo Foundation, Paul Bebenimibo, who was also named as one of the alleged sponsors of the group, described the report as “voodoo”, pointing out that he has consistently denied his involvement with the militant group.
“In the same report, my boss, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo was also mentioned as one of the sponsors of the NDA.
“My initial decision was to ignore the said report as a result of the source and the bogus nature of the story; however, in order to set the records straight, I decided to write to dissociate my boss and myself from that wicked and malicious report,” he said, advising the Nigerian government to seek better ways of resolving the Niger Delta crisis.
The statement reads, “If a people, that is the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers have claimed to part ways with the NDA, after destroying almost all the oil facilities in the Niger Delta region, and turn around to claim that they have repented and mentioned some people as sponsors and operatives of the NDA, then the government and people of this country need to know such people (RNDA) and treat them accordingly, and not the responsible Nigerians they mentioned as sponsors and operatives.”
