~~The Billionaire Militant, His Biography, Net Worth And Private Jet
CreeksNews Editorial
Tompolo is a freedom fighter who fought against oppression and exploitation in Nigeria who turned a billionaire businessman . He was the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The previous guerrilla warrior drove the agitation against the Nigerian government and international oil organizations over the oppression and exploitation of his people just as the annihilation and degradation of their environment brought about unchecked pollution through inappropriate methods in the oil production.
Tompolo, with full name, Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo was born on the 12 of April 1971 to the Okerenoko royal family, in the traditional Gbaramatu Kingdom of Delta State, Nigeria. He was raised by his biological guardians and got his basic education at Okepopo Primary School in Warri. He finished his secondary school education in 1993.
During that time, Tompolo had started to see the dishonest sidelining of his people from the gains gathered from the production of oil which was drilled from his own community. This incited him to join a Niger Delta resistance group. In 1998, he joined the recently formed Ijaw Youth Council, where he turned into a respected and regarded member. Be that as it may, because of expanded inward politics inside the group that prompted little advancement, Tompolo joined the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta where he immediately rose to the role of high commander.
Tompolo had then amassed a great deal of riches said to be generally from oil bunkering. His wealth put him at the cutting edge of tasks as he had the option to support the group with the assets they expected to accomplish their objectives which included overwhelming artillery weapons and boats. He additionally stretched out a invitation to Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, pioneer of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) to take refuge in Delta state in 2005. This encouraged MEND to be perceived as the main militant group in the community as it allegedly tried to shape an association of all the applicable militant group in the Niger Delta. This put Tompolo in the command of thousands of militant and he was extremely effective in his tasks, assaulting oil installations in the territory and abducting a few oil company personnel. Mend is said to have authoritatively started its tasks by kidnapping nine foreign staff of Wilbros, an American oilfield service company situated in Panama, yet with significant workplaces and administrators in Houston, USA. Tompolo had the option to boast that beside Mr. Dokubo-Asari and Ateke Tom, each other millitant in the area was under his tutelage.
His exercises started to instil fear in the Nigerian government just as other international bodies who had operations and investment in the area. This gave him a seat at the table to negotiate terms wherein the militants would set out their weapons in return for amnesty and developments project to be carried out in the Niger Delta. He was granted full amnesty and all of his men, said to be more than 2000 when they grasped the amnesty offer from the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on June 27, 2009. This followed with the handing over of weapons by militant commandants in the Niger Delta district in return for the promised amnesty and assurance of employments and training by the government.
The militants were welcomed with incredible cheers by many Niger Delta individuals who wore shirts with the engraving; Tompolo Is Our Hero. He not long after started working with government forces to catch militants carrying out atrocities in the community in his group's name.
Tompolo Net Worth (Private Jet)
It is not clear what Tompolo's total assets is, notwithstanding, it is said to be in billions of naira. This can be determined from the millions he got from the government through the amnesty program just as his other business ventures which included unlawful oil bunkering and most as of late, arms trading. Having been a dear friend of President Goodluck Jonathan, Tompolo was awarded a contract through his company, the Global West Vessel Specialist Limited (GWVSL), of over N15 billion naira to supply 20 vessels for the utilization of the Nigerian military authorities to secure its waterways.
Tompolo's riches can likewise be seen by his ownership for private jet. As indicated by reports by different sources, the ex-militant possesses a Learjet 60SE, which costs an astounding N2.12 billion, made by Canadian aerospace company Bombardier.
Tompolo was needed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a case of conspiracy and the illicit diversion of the sum of N34,000,000,000 (Thirty-Four Billion Naira) and N11,900,000,000 (Eleven Billion, Nine Hundred Million Naira) which allegedly belonged to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA.
On a few events, Tompolo has avoided the request for a Federal High Court in Lagos to show up before it and answer to a 40-check charge of supposed extortion leveled against him by the EFCC. All endeavors made by both the police and military powers to secure him have demonstrated fruitless. In the end, it boiled down to Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Lagos Federal High court to arrange for the seizure of certain properties belonging to the previous Niger Delta warlord.
Tompolo sold his own property. Yet he's being witch hunt. He's being worshipped by many who believe in his dream for a better Niger Delta.
He is Indeed A Hero!
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