Presidency worships militants and gives them
contracts:
Popular Lagos-based lawyer, Festus Keyamo, has
petitioned the State Security Services and the
Nigerian Police over an alleged threat to his life
by an ex-militant leader popularly known as
Tompolo.
In the letter dated October 29, and also copied to
the President and the Delta State governor,
Keyamo said that Tompolo threatened to "beat
him to death" for wading into a perceived fraud in
the just concluded Delta State local government
election.
Keyamo said: "At exactly 10:13p.m. on
Tuesday, October 28, 2014, I received a
telephone call from one Mr. Government
Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo)…,
"We have been acquaintances in the past,
so I know his numbers. After reaffirming
that he is Tompolo when I picked his call,
he went straight to the point by informing
me that he wishes to inform me that he and
his 'boys' will kill me by beating me to
death or shooting me anywhere they can
find me. And that the hunt for me is on.
"His exact words in pidgin English was 'we
dey look for you. Anywhere we see you,
whether for Lagos or Abuja or Warri, we go
beat you die or we go shoot you.'
"He said he would kill me because I have decided
to take up the matter involving his blood brother,
Mr. George Ekpemupolo, who was used to
illegally substitute another candidate, Mr.
Weyinmi Omadeli (48 hours to the election) in the
Warri South-West L.G.A elections that were
concluded last Saturday in Delta State."
On Tuesday, Mr. Keyamo had petitioned
Emmanuel Uduaghan, the Delta State governor,
over the latter's "illegal substitution" of Mr.
Omadeli, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
candidate for Warri South-West at the council poll
with George Ekpemuopolo, Tompolo's younger
brother.
"On this issue concerning Warri South-West
L.G.A, I have no choice but to cry out, because
your decision is capable of igniting a crisis that
will affect all of us. The decision was taken
whimsically and it is unjust, unfair, illegal, and
ungodly," Mr. Keyamo had written to the
governor.
"Consequently, it is unacceptable and will be
challenged legally and politically."
Mr. Keyamo said Tompolo told him that nobody
had ever challenged his authority in Delta State.
"I asked Tompolo five times whether, he was, in
fact, threatening my life over an open line and he
said nobody in the country can do anything about
it by the time I am dead," said Mr. Keyamo.
"Co-incidentally, exactly three minutes after
Tompolo dropped his line, His Excellency,
Governor Uduaghan called me at exactly
10.16pm, and I reported to him what just
transpired between Tompolo and myself.
"The Governor promised to speak with him, but
that cannot be reassuring enough, and I know the
remedy in law against an intended murderer is
not to beg him but to ignite the criminal justice
system against him, no matter how comatose
that system is."
Mr. Keyamo said that Tompolo had the
"instrument to kill human beings".
"I know the subject of this petition, Tompolo, is a
favoured citizen of this government, and I am not.
I know Tompolo is close to those in power at the
moment, whereas I am an ordinary citizen. I know
Tompolo has money and influence (which are
factors that are widely acknowledged to aid a
suspect walk away with murder in Nigeria), but I
have none of these.
"In the circumstance, I am making this petition
public so that when you refuse to attend to my
complaint and outcry, the ordinary people of this
country will, at least, know from where my death
came and I will not join the long list of
unresolved murders. My killer, should, at least be
known."
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