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Buhari tackles Niger Delta warlord..

As EFFCC arraigns Tompolo over 35.5 bilion naira fraud..

By Ayo Ademokoya.

Former Niger Delta billionaire militant and commander of the Movement for the Emancipation the Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo popularly called  Tompolo has been arraigned by Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFFC)  at a Federal High court in Lagos over 40 count charge of fraud and money laundering alongside leveled against him and   nine other accomplice, Kime Enzogu, Rex Elem, Gregory Mbonuan ex –Director general of the Nigerian  Maritime Administration and Safety, Patrick Akpobolomi.

According to report reaching harohkah.blogspot.com the order was granted by Justice Ibrahim Buba to compel the 44year old former warlord on Tuesday after the charges were file were filed on Tuesday “that an order is granted to the applicant(EFCC) issuing a summons to compel the appearance of Government  Ekpemupolo(aka Tompolo) before the Honourable court having been alleged to have committed the offences as contained in the body of the charge.

The prosecution said the accused were liable to punishment under section 15(3)  of the same act for the fraudulent  conversion of NIMASA’s property to their own contrary to section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition)  (amendment) Act, 2012.

Four companies are also arraigned with him namely ; Global West Vessel Specialist Ltd, Odimiri Electrical Ltd, Boloboere Property and Estate limited and Destre Consult Limited.

Before been granted Amnesty during the Regime of Late President Shehu Musa Yaradua on the 4^th of October 2009 in other to allow for peace to reign in that area for the government and the oil companies carry out developmental projects in the Niger Delta region, Tompolo was the commander in various guerilla groups in the Niger Delta which were agitating against the insensitivity  of the Federal Government  and the international oil companies towards the exploitation and degradation of the Niger Delta. Ekpemupolo’s wealth derived mainly was from oil bunkering and playing major role in the founding both MEND and also his fighters