* Says: You can’t eat alone
* Vows to wage war against Tompolo’s armed men in Kalabari area
War drums may have started beating in the Niger Delta region following the decision by the founder of Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), Alh. Asari Dokubo, to oppose the N4.5billion monthly pipeline surveillance contract awarded a former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo.
The aggrieved Dokubo said in a viral video that it smacks of greed for Tompolo to be in charge of pipeline protection for all the ethnic groups in the Niger Delta.
Dokubo wondered why Tompolo would be in charge of Delta, Bayelsa, and Rivers states, asking if he (Tompolo) is the only one that knows how to eat.
He vowed to stop Tompolo from being in charge of the surveillance contract for the 83km pipeline criss-crossing his Kalabari area in Rivers State.
Dokubo said he would not allow Tompolo’s armed boys escorted by soldiers to enter Kalabari territory.
The creek warlord accused the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, of deliberately giving everything to Tompolo to spite him (Asari) and destabilise the Niger Delta.
“You took the ones that belong to Gbaramatu, Itsekiri, Isoko, Urhobo, Kwale, you took all because you are the only one that knows how to eat. You went to Bayelsa and took everything then you came to take the one in Kalabari.
“If Timipre Sylva gave you because he said he wanted to clip my wings as if he were a god, when Sylva was a member of the House of Assembly, did I clip his wings? I am older than Sylva?
“When he was a governor, did I clip his wings? He is now a minister, did I clip his wings? Sylva said I was becoming too powerful and connived to give pipeline contracts to only Tompolo so that he would destroy what we are doing for the government he serves.
“We are making the government to be stable, but he is destabilising the same government he serves. So he brought Tompolo, gathered people, saying he would buy guns for them. Let them come. I am not boasting, let soldiers bring the Tompolo boys here.
“I am not talking about Rivers. I am saying they cannot take Kalabari. They can take every other place but I won’t allow them take Kalabari. You are collecting over N4.5billion a month for doing nothing and people are supporting you. You must leave the 82km pipeline for Kalabari. You can’t take it,” he declared.