A Niger Delta group, Coalition of Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders for Peace Group(NDENYLPG) has warned some Ijaw groups blackmailing the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III over unfounded allegations.
The National Coordinator of the group and ex-militant leader, ‘General’ Osama (Ijaw Ethnic Nationality) and the National Secretary, General Jemine Josiah, an ex-militant leader (Itsekiri Ethnic Nationality) vehemently warned the sponsored Ijaw groups to henceforth stop their tissues of lies and cheap blackmail sponsored by some unscrupulous elements calling for the termination of the contract to the Niger Delta’s revered monarch of international recognition and repute, the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III.
The group stated that “we totally condemn calls for the termination of the contract of Ocean Marine Solutions(OMS) company that is handling the Trans-Forcados Pipeline (TFP), which the Olu of Warri Kingdom, Ogiame Atuwatse III, is the Chairman. The Itsekiri tribe in Delta State owns over 60 per cent of that Trans Forcados Pipeline, while only 30 per cent of that TFP criss-cross the Ijaw communities in the creek and by virtue of this, who is supposed to be awarded the responsibility of the security of the TFP pipeline surveillance contract? Definitely, it is well deserved for the Olu of Warri Kingdom, Ogiame Atuwatse III, to handle it.
“Therefore, we want to warn that the disgruntled and jobless fellows of this group, Niger Delta Stakeholders Forum (NDSF) headed by one Chief Julius Daukoru from Ijaw ethnic nationality to call for the cancelation of the surveillance contract handled by Ocean Marine Solutions Company (OMS) chaired by the Olu of Warri Kingdom, Ogiame Atuwatse III, is an insult, aberration and sacrilege to the Itsekiri Nation as whole.
“And calling to re-award it to Tompolo, an ex militant leader, who is an Ijaw man from Gbaramatu Kingdom, is totally condemnable disheartening and uncalled for, which is adding injury to the matter. We, therefore, stand against this move made by the disgruntled, unscrupulous and notorious group of persons that are playing the script of their paymasters.
“In the last few weeks or thereabout in April, there was a group that called themselves Niger Delta Stakeholders Forum(NDSF) headed by one disgruntled element that is not known in the Niger Delta struggle.
“We sternly warn Mr Julius Daukoru and his paymasters to immediately stop this disgusting action and mischief by dancing naked in the market place, and we know those who are behind him and his fabrications of lies against the Olu of Warri Kingdom with the ploy to drag his personality and image including that of Ocean Marine Solutions Company in the mud.
“We will not allow these evil minded persons to throw the Niger Delta into a war zone, we will resist vehemently. We also want the people of Niger Delta to discard whatever the so-called NDSF, led by Julius Daukuro, had published on some online media.”
The coalition for the purpose of clarity and putting the records straight asserted that, “Ocean Marine Solutions company has never breached its contract terms and guidelines of the contract agreement entered with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited(NNPCL) as falsely alleged by Julius Daukuro.
“It is on record that OM had always engaged critical and relevant stakeholders including the host communities in the NNPCL’s Right of Way(RoW) and also it is imperative to let Nigerians and the world know that in the Trans- Forcados and that of Trans-Escravos recruitment, the host communities surveillance guards both the Ijaw communities and the Itsekiris benefitted.”
