BEVERLY HILLS, July 23, (THEWILL) – Former militant commander, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo has resuscitated the proscribed Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) and invited former militant commanders and leaders of various factions of the group to a meeting slated for Saturday in Izon House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
“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 as follows: Venue: Izon House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State…,” the invitation said.
Sources close to Tompolo said the meeting would discuss the “fate” of the Niger Delta in the current political dispensation.
The militant group had accepted the federal government’s amnesty program during the Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan presidential administrations and received cash and lucrative oil and surveillance contracts in return for peace in the often restive oil-rich Niger Delta.
The current Buhari administration has however revoked some of the controversial contracts in a bid to conserve government funds.
